Career Catalysts: Pershing Fellow paves new path in nonprofit work
College students everywhere spend their summers building up their resumes. For rising WashU senior Huda Abdesumad, that also meant building community within St. Louis.
WashU Arboretum welcomes its inaugural class of docents
The WashU Arboretum held its inaugural docent training, bringing together a wide variety of individuals to support future outreach and educational programming.
Platinum powers the future
Gang Wu, collaborators develop potential fuel-cell solution for powering data centers, transportation
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.