In St. Louis, For St. Louis

Dr. Ariela Schachter and her faculty collaborators Dr. Ila Sheren and Dr. Tabea Linhard worked with the the Digital Solutions Studio (DSS) at WashU to create an web-based app called Moving Stories to study what happens when you connect members of the St. Louis community to their neighbors with migrant backgrounds. Moving Stories also embodies a larger, interdisciplinary initiative at WashU that explores stories from St. Louis’ vibrant immigrant community through an art exhibit, workshops, and public engagements.

Four students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis have been awarded summer fellowships with four local architecture and landscape architecture firms to work on meaningful civic projects in the St. Louis region.

Every quarter, the Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital provides non-research grant support to members of Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, aligning with their shared mission of supporting and advancing patient care. Recently, the Foundation approved two projects led by team members from the Department of Anesthesiology: The MORE Grant Program and the INCLUDE 2.0 Study.

Among the new aims outlined in the SEPA-funded grant for the ASSET Program led by Douglas Chalker, professor of biology of Arts & Sciences at WashU, is reaching populations traditionally underrepresented in science in the St. Louis area. 

Washington University in St. Louis’ Office of Technology Management (OTM) celebrated a milestone this year: Washington University’s 100th startup and counting. Over the past three decades — but most notably in the past 10 years — OTM has worked proactively to help the university’s faculty researchers commercialize innovative technologies developed in their labs. By supporting faculty […]

Eight members of the WashU community were recognized in late April for completing a first-of-its-kind program aimed at creating greater equity on campus. The program, provided through the School of Continuing & Professional Studies English Language Program, offers WashU subcontractors access to a 20-week immersive English Language program through a sub-contractor scholarship fund that was […]

Washington University in St. Louis Brown School students in the “Community Development Practice” class engaged with community partners and contributed to hands-on projects to improve neighborhoods in south St. Louis. Taught by Molly Metzger, a senior lecturer in the school, the spring semester class focused on sustainable community development projects related to pedestrian safety, neighborhood planning […]

In a bid to reduce disparities and improve overall sexual health in the region, the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will offer expanded STI testing and treatment services at its Village Square clinic, located in north St. Louis County, a historically medically underserved area.

Washington University in St. Louis announced today that Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, one of the world’s most influential public health leaders, will become the inaugural Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the university’s planned School of Public Health, effective Jan. 1.

The Gephardt Institute hosted WashU’s first-ever Municipal Election polling place this month, advancing the institute’s commitment to drive voter participation in every election.