For Hester Blum, scholarship is an expedition
From “Moby-Dick” to the Northwest Passage, Blum follows literary questions beyond the archive and into the environments that shaped them.
Student-community projects receive St. Louis Impact funding
The WashU Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement has awarded $80,000 in St. Louis Impact Fund grants to advance regional priorities.
Jun receives ACS Midwest Award
Young-Shin Jun honored for outstanding contributions to chemistry by the American Chemical Society
Malone installed as Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg Curator
On May 18, Malone was installed as the Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg Curator, the museum’s first named curatorship.
Silkworm cultivation predated the Silk Road in southern Central Asia
Silk production skills reached Central Asia as early as 4,000 years ago, long before start of Silk Road trading route, WashU research finds
What I learned following a mentor into the jungle
Guided by graduate student Tasman Ezra, a WashU undergraduate turns classroom skills into field research and gains a deeper understanding of what it means to be a scientist.
Lessons from the wild
WashU plant scientists gather research to understand how wild plants handle shifting disease threats, conditions
Mental health, environment shape pregnancy sleep
Nearly half of pregnant women in the United States report poor sleep quality, which has been associated with gestational diabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy.
Cao named Guggenheim Fellow
Yin Cao, ScD, has been named a 2026 Fellow of the 101st class of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.