Arts & Sciences

Washington University in St. Louis and Deerfield Management, a health-care investment firm, announced the launch of VeritaScience, a new private R&D collaboration designed to advance the discovery, clinical development and commercialization of promising therapeutic and diagnostic candidates with potential to benefit human health.

2023 was the hottest year in recorded history. Michael Wysession, a professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, explains four factors that drove the year’s extreme heat and climate disasters — and what this means for the future.

Some Source stories from years past continue to attract new readers. Here, we check in with WashU researchers in linguistics, psychology, engineering and other disciplines to learn more about their work and how the research has progressed.

The Black Rep will launch its 47th season with “Hold On.” The world premiere drama, by British playwright Paul Webb, is based on his original screenplay for the Oscar-nominated film “Selma.”

At the university’s Board of Trustees meeting Dec. 1, numerous faculty members were appointed or promoted with tenure or granted tenure.

Sleep helps restore the brain’s operating system to a critical state, according to new findings from biology and physics researchers in Arts & Sciences.

Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

Peter R. Phillips, a professor emeritus of physics in Arts & Sciences, died Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in St. Louis. He was 92 years old.

A University Marketing & Communications team was nominated for two 2023 Mid-America Regional Emmy awards by the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis discovered evidence for domestic yak in the Tibetan Plateau dating back 2,500 years.