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After graduating from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, both Max Kleeman and Drake Hill swore off jobs in consulting, banking and other industries typically favored by MBAs. They don’t dream of starting their own ventures, though you’d have to describe both as entrepreneurial. Instead, both are actively searching for small, family-owned businesses that […]

The East Asian Library at Washington University in St. Louis has launched an interactive digital story mapping project that explores Asian American experiences in the area and contributions to the St. Louis community since the mid-1800s.

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.

Deb Huber was one of 12 incarcerated women to earn an associate of arts degree through Washington University’s Prison Education Project this school year. They’re the first women to receive degrees through the program, which graduated its first class in a men’s prison in 2019.

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 […]