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Naina Muvva, a first-year student in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in the education category for her innovative financial literacy software, Intertwined.

In an effort to reduce food waste, two Washington University in St. Louis student groups have joined forces to distribute healthy, fresh food to local shelters and food banks. The WashU chapter of the Food Recovery Network collects produce from Burning Kumquat, the student-run urban farm, and from university dining halls to prepare meals for programs including the St. Patrick Center and Gateway 180.

Dressing bullet wounds for the Bullet Related Injury Clinic. Analyzing biosolids for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment. Developing LGBTQ outreach plans for the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Missouri Chapter. This summer, Washington University in St. Louis undergraduate students performed these valuable services, and more, as part of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement’s St. Louis Fellows Program, which provides career and civic leadership training to students as well as a $6,000 stipend to intern at a St. Louis nonprofit.

In high school, Hamza Jalal held a human heart. Only a junior, Jalal had the opportunity to study dissected cadavers in the anatomy lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. With faculty and trainees providing guidance, he studied the spongy lobes of the lungs; the brain’s soft, maze-like folds; and brownish, bean-shaped kidneys. But it was the heart that helped him envision his future as a doctor.

On the final day of the College Prep Summer Academy at Washington University in St. Louis, the program’s 10th cohort gathered for a vision board exhibit. Each scholar pasted their boards with images and phrases representative of their goals and aspirations for the future.

The Washington University in St. Louis Career Center has announced the inaugural cohort of the Pershing Fellowship in Nonprofit Leadership, an innovative internship program that introduces rising juniors and seniors to career paths within the St. Louis nonprofit community.

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine student Alexandra Zdonczyk both loves the people and places that make St. Louis unique and recognizes the disparities and injustices that hold it back. For both reasons, she is staying. “I feel at home in St. Louis,” said Zdonczyk, who will start her residency in ophthalmology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital after she graduates with a medical degree this month.

High school senior Marye’ Jones got two big surprises Monday, Dec. 12, when she walked into the library at Clyde C. Miller Career Academy in St. Louis Public Schools. There, she found her mother and two brothers holding balloons and flowers, along with two strangers, each bearing an envelope.