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The Sam Fox School’s Office for Socially Engaged Practice will partner with the nonprofit Be Well Café & Market in St. Louis’ Hyde Park neighborhood for the school’s inaugural Summer Public Design Workshop this May. The three-week long charrette challenges student participants to design a project in collaboration with and proposed by a community partner. Be Well was selected by a review committee from a competitive set of proposals submitted last fall.

The St. Louis nonprofit BioSTL is taking a leading role to turbocharge neuroscience in St. Louis. BioSTL is partnering with Washington University in St. Louis to lead a new program for the St. Louis region, called the NEURO360 initiative.

Peter Kastor, the Samuel K. Eddy Endowed Professor in History in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed chair of the Missouri Historical Society’s board of trustees. His two-year term began Jan. 1.

About 55 high school students from the St. Louis region and beyond tested their knowledge of the human brain and learned about neuroscience careers at the 15th annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee March 8 at Washington University in St. Louis.

Juan Williams Chávez is founder and director of Northside Workshop, an indoor workspace surrounded by a teaching garden divided into a variety of habitats. Visitors learn about bees and ecosystems and make art projects. He’s also one of 10 artists in an exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum that showcases people who use their artwork to call for a better balance between humans and the natural world.

More than 150 nominations were submitted for the St. Louis Business Journal’s annual Best Places to Work Awards program for 2025. The 80 companies identified including WashU stand out as the finalists in this year’s program.

The Sam Fox School will host a symposium exploring the urban experience of race and segregation in St. Louis April 11-12, 2025. The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson II expands on a research project led by Professor Iver Bernstein in Arts & Sciences and Assistant Professor Heidi Aronson Kolk in the Sam Fox School.

Lawrence E. Thomas, a member of the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees and an Olin Business School alumnus, was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the St. Louis American Foundation during its 23rd Annual Salute to Excellence in Business Awards, held Feb. 20 at the Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis.

The WashU Math Club is a new student-led organization with a verve for numbers. The math club’s largest event so far was the first annual WashU Mathematical Excellence Competition. More than 60 students from 12 area high schools faced off in individual and team challenges covering a range of subjects, including geometry, algebra, and number theory. Between events, competitors had a chance to tour campus and meet with members of other university groups, including WashU Robotics and the Society of Physics Students. “It was a big success,” Auld said. “The competitors got a WashU experience. I hope many of them will look into coming here.”

Black pediatric patients believed to have neurological conditions are falling through the cracks. Half of Black pediatric patients completed the necessary genetic tests for diagnosis and treatment. That puts them well behind white pediatric patients at 75%. This is just one disparity highlighted in a new study from Washington University’s School of Medicine. WashU Medicine neurology professor Dr. Christina Gurnett said these tests are necessary to unlock treatment options.