WashU students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz
In the News

WashU students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz

The Washington University Make-a-Thon is an event in its second year in which WashU students design and produce a prototype of a functional tech device for people with disabilities. People from different fields work together to create a product for a person with a disability, said Marit Watson, an occupational therapy professor at the university.

Guest column: WashU puts investments, efforts where it lives
In the News

Guest column: WashU puts investments, efforts where it lives

Washington University is known far and wide as a top notch place to go to college. But here in our hometown, you call us WashU, and you know us not just as a great school, but as the place to go when you need answers to complicated medical questions – like you did about 2.5 million times in 2024 – or when you’re looking for a meaningful job with great benefits – like 22,000 of your neighbors have done.

BJC, Washington U. each donate $5 million to Brickline Greenway project
In the News

BJC, Washington U. each donate $5 million to Brickline Greenway project

BJC Health System and Washington University have each donated $5 million to the Brickline Greenway project, the 10-mile biking and walking trail system that officials hope to extend across the city over the next few years. Great Rivers Greenway, which is overseeing the project, said the contributions have pushed the $245 million public-private partnership past the halfway-funded mark.

Washington University launching first new school in a century
In the News

Washington University launching first new school in a century

Washington University in St. Louis is preparing to launch its first new school in a century: the school of public health. Dr. Sandro Galea, the dean of the school of public health, says public health is many things from pandemics, infectious disease, to chronic disease and mental health. “What distinguishes public health is that we think about how we can structure the world to keep us healthy for as long as possible to prevent disease,” said Galea on ‘Total Information A.M.’

BJC Health System, Washington University in St. Louis, and Greater St. Louis, Inc. Provide Major Support to Brickline Greenway
In the News

BJC Health System, Washington University in St. Louis, and Greater St. Louis, Inc. Provide Major Support to Brickline Greenway

Brickline Greenway is kicking off 2025 with three huge wins! Great Rivers Greenway (GRG), the public agency connecting the region with greenways who turns 25 this year, has received a major boost to support the project’s vision to connect 14 neighborhoods with 12+ miles of greenways. Significant investments from both BJC Health System (BJC) and Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) push the $245 million public-private partnership past the halfway-funded mark, as well as provide critical match for future federal funding applications. Greater St. Louis, Inc. (GSL) stepped up its commitment by forming a working group of CEOs to support capital campaign efforts, further ensuring success for the project in 2025.

The Most Disruptive Undergraduate Business School Startups Of 2024
In the News

The Most Disruptive Undergraduate Business School Startups Of 2024

At Washington University’s Olin School, Izzy Gorton and Chiara Munzi are disrupting the quick breakfast market – and have raised $234,000 to take their startup national. Gorton and Munzi leveraged the school’s Skandalaris Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to guide the launch of their venture, ChiChi. Even more, adds Gorton, they took advantage of their startup-friendly local ecosystem in St. Louis.

New WashU student NAACP chapter looks to get more young people civically engaged
News

New WashU student NAACP chapter looks to get more young people civically engaged

Precious Barry, a WashU undergrad, has partnered with the St. Louis County chapter of the NAACP to help charter a student chapter at the university that will launch this January. The chapter is housed under WashU’s African and African American Studies Department. Its goals are to register to vote as many students as possible, create civically minded leaders and work to promote diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.

Viewing 1 - 30 of 106