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.
Bursky Public Health names first FARM distinguished professors
Lora Iannotti and Feng Jiao have been installed as the inaugural Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professors at WashU
The secrets of bunker 46
Inside a World War II-era bunker at Tyson Research Center, preserved birds, handwritten logs and mold-covered artifacts tell a story of science, stewardship and changing times.