Meet the 2025 Most Influential Business Women Awards honorees
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Meet the 2025 Most Influential Business Women Awards honorees

The St. Louis Business Journal has been honoring and celebrating women business leaders for more than 25 years through its Most Influential Business Women Awards program. With the help of past winners, the Business Journal reviewed 160 nominations to select the 2025 class of Most Influential Business Women. These 25 women are making an impact not only at the companies they work for and run, but at local nonprofits and organizations in the communities they serve. Several WashU staff and alums are being honored this year.

Oladipupo Fadei a speaker at WashU College Prep Program graduation
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Oladipupo Fadei a speaker at WashU College Prep Program graduation

Oladipupo Fadeyi, who will attend Washington University in the fall after graduating from Hazelwood East, was a student speaker during the Wash U College Prep Program (CPP) graduation ceremony in Emerson Auditorium on May 4. CPP prepares talented first-generation, limited-income high school students from the St. Louis region to succeed in college. 

A north St. Louis farmers market gets help from a WashU program
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A north St. Louis farmers market gets help from a WashU program

Construction of a north St. Louis farmers market and pavilion is moving forward, thanks in part to a new Washington University program where students design structures for local organizations. Be Well Cafe and Market will open in the Hyde Park neighborhood later this summer after holding weekly pop-up events. The farmers market pavilion will be surrounded by several metal screens. The creation of the screens is part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Summer Public Design Workshop. A cohort of 10 students designed the concept after working with Fatimah Muhammad, executive director of Be Well Cafe and Market.

These are the St. Louis region’s 2025 Best Places to Work
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These are the St. Louis region’s 2025 Best Places to Work

The St. Louis Business Journal’s annual Best Places to Work Awards recognize the top workplaces in the St. Louis region and is one of the most anticipated awards programs of the year. This year, WashU was recognized again as one of the top workplaces in the region.

WashU chancellor: Our research brings big benefits to St. Louis. You can help protect it.
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WashU chancellor: Our research brings big benefits to St. Louis. You can help protect it.

As chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, I have the privilege of witnessing firsthand how our institution’s research enterprise transforms lives, not just through scientific breakthroughs, but through tangible economic and social benefits that strengthen our entire region and state. For the first time in our history, WashU surpassed $1 billion in annual research funding in fiscal year 2024. This milestone is a testament to the extraordinary talent and dedication of our researchers, and a powerful economic catalyst for St. Louis and Missouri.

WashU Olin Business School Makes A Big Bet On The Business Of Health
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WashU Olin Business School Makes A Big Bet On The Business Of Health

When Washington University Olin Business School Dean Mike Mazzeo led the creation of a new strategic plan for the school, one new North Star emerged as a strategic imperative: developing true distinction in the business of health. It wasn’t merely a takeaway from the strategy sessions. It became a guiding mandate for moving forward.

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