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Class Acts: Working toward restorative justice
Throughout her childhood, Najjuwah Walden’s only interactions with social workers occurred when something was wrong. They came in when there was violence in her home. They came in when her father was...
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Class Acts: ‘Nice girls … and bad men’
When the trolls came for Taylor Yocom, she tried playing nice. “I’d actually write them back!” she says with a rueful laugh. “That lasted about three days.” It was spring 2015. “Guarded,” a photo...
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Class Acts: Meeting the world where it’s at
As a high school student in Boston, Jessica Gray quit the drama club to join the lacrosse team. But she never stopped acting. Gray, 22, was born in the body of a boy, wanted desperately to be a man and...
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Speakers planned for schools’ Commencement celebrations
A variety of distinguished speakers, faculty members and student leaders will take part in Commencement-related events for Class of 2018 graduates and their families and guests next week at Washington...
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$5 million supports innovative breast cancer trial
A $5 million grant from the Department of Defense will support research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis aimed at improving breast cancer therapies. The research focuses on...
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Olin announces new Family Business Center, two new professorships
The St. Louis-based Koch family has agreed to contribute $12 million to establish the Koch Center for Family Business at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School and to endow two...
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Class Acts: Fighting childhood malnutrition
There is medical term for the condition that Zach Linneman has observed in Malawi, Sierra Leone and India — severe acute malnutrition, or SAM. Linneman uses a different word: starvation. “That’s what...
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Class Acts: Tackling the global clean water crisis
Engineering students (from left) Zachary Bluestein, Anna Noronha, Harold Zhu, Sydney Katz and Kailin Baechle met as high school seniors at a weekend for the Langsdorf Scholars Program and joined...
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Announcing the 2018-19 Great Artists Series
Nikolai Lugansky is a virtuoso pianist who plays with “plush sound and plenty of impetuosity” (New York Times). Tamara Mumford, the charismatic mezzo-soprano, “has an aristocratic middle range, dusky...
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An ‘unprecedented look’ into the protein behind hypertension, epilepsy and...
The seemingly unrelated conditions of hypertension, epilepsy and overactive bladder may be linked by electrical activity in a protein long studied by a biomedical engineer at Washington University in...
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New Forest Park Parkway pedestrian bridge to be built
The new Forest Park Parkway bridge will have designated lanes for pedestrians and cyclists. In an effort to better accommodate pedestrians and cyclists, Washington University in St. Louis will replace...
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Why chikungunya, other arthritis-causing viruses target joints
Chikungunya virus is a growing threat to the United States and other regions of the world as the mosquito that carries the virus expands its reach. Telltale symptoms of chikungunya infection are fever...
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Finding strength in challenging times
Brown School PhD candidate Donald Gerke will deliver the graduate student speech in Brookings Quadrangle at the 157th Commencement May 18. “I think it’s vitally important that we view our work after...
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Attending college at the right time, right place
Class President William Feng, an economics and strategy major at Olin Business School, built bridges during his time as a student here. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University) Senior Class...
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Washington University Commencement is 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 18
WHAT: Washington University’s 157th Commencement. The university will award 3,319 degrees to 3,150 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on...
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Blood type affects severity of diarrhea caused by E. coli
A new study shows that a kind of E. coli most associated with “travelers’ diarrhea” and children in underdeveloped areas of the world causes more severe disease in people with blood type A. The...
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Commencement: time to celebrate the Class of 2018
More than 3,100 undergraduate, graduate and professional students will receive degrees during Washington University’s 157th Commencement ceremony Friday, May 18, in Brookings Quadrangle. (Photo: James...
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Anne-Marie Slaughter’s 2018 Commencement address at Washington University in...
Thank you. You may be hoping that my speech is shorter than my introduction, but it was a truly wonderful introduction. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is American renewal. Not just as a...
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Slaughter calls for an American renewal
The theme of “American Renewal” rang strong and true throughout the address that foreign policy expert Anne-Marie Slaughter delivered to the Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2018 at the...
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Graduate student speaker Donald Gerke’s address to the Class of 2018
Good morning. Thank you Grand Marshall Drobak, Chancellor Wrighton, Dean Tate and everyone here for allowing me time to speak today. I’m thrilled to share this moment with my parents, my brother, my...
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