Air Quality and Health Initiative Research Spotlight: a case for collaboration
A simple question brought together two separate areas of deep, complex expertise to advance critical research: does anyone at WashU research air quality?
WashU students help imagine a greener St. Louis
At the Living Earth Collaborative’s annual Nature City Symposium, three student teams drew on regional expertise to develop new approaches to trees, green space and urban design.
Malone, Stark named inaugural Ryan Institute faculty scholars
Sara Malone and Lindsay Stark are the inaugural faculty scholars of the Ryan Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Solutions.
Pregnancy nutrition trial in Ecuador improves fetal brain growth
A nutrition program for pregnant women inspired by ancestral dietary patterns in Ecuador increased growth in a key fetal brain region.
What’s in a sidewalk?
A graduate public health course examines the effects of built environments, from local crosswalks to global cityscapes.
A conversation with Associate Dean for Education Angela Hobson
Hobson brings passion for and experience with teaching to her role shaping the education of the next generation of public health professionals
Carolina Caycedo on ‘Growing Deep Roots’
Major exhibition by internationally renowned artist opens Sept. 9 at Kemper Art Museum
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.
Samuels named SOM, MAK Center researcher-in-residence
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and the SOM Foundation have named Linda C. Samuels, a professor and chair of urban design at the WashU Sam Fox School, as 2026 researcher-in-residence.