In St. Louis, For St. Louis

During the COVID pandemic, Aditya Yelamani ’24 was worried that patients at St. Louis Children’s Hospital lacked interaction and stimuli that could help them heal. Yelamani, a 2023 Fandos Fellow in the St. Louis Fellows program from the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, created Hearts for Arts as a patient-driven solution that would transcend the pandemic.  

Bettina Drake, a professor of surgery in public health sciences at the School of Medicine, will be the inaugural faculty director of the St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Practice, Washington University in St. Louis Provost Beverly Wendland announced May 31. The new role takes effect July 1.

Washington University in St. Louis has announced the 11th cohort of the College Prep Program, a no-cost, multi-year program that prepares first-generation, limited-income students in the St. Louis area for college.

Washington University’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies Prison Education Project (PEP) held its first women’s commencement May 16, 2024, at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo.

When St. Louis native Kim Kuehner, MBA ’77, made his first foray into medical philanthropy in 2018, he viewed it as a long-term investment that would enable him to play a role in advancing human health. He did not expect his $15 million gift for an endowment supporting personalized cardiovascular research at Washington University School […]

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 […]