Re-imagining Commencement
More graduates, more room, more fun, more food, more joy, all added up to a glorious send-off for Washington University in St. Louis’ Class of 2022.
Guts and stardust
Kevin McKeegan, who earned his PhD in physics in Arts & Sciences in 1987, has had a storied career measuring the tiniest particles of the solar system.
The next war we have to win
While the battle against SARS-CoV-2 rages on, Washington University researchers and clinicians are fighting a rearguard action against drug-resistant infections that years of overprescribing have turned deadly.
Into the wild
Biologist Arpita Bose explains the importance of wetlands and the microorganisms living there to capture carbon — and to possibly provide solutions for a clean energy future
The launch pad
Olin’s MBA entrepreneurship program — ranked No. 1 by Poets & Quants for three consecutive years — is a pivotal part of a school-, university- and community-wide entrepreneurial ecosystem helping students and alumni become successful entrepreneurs. And St. Louis’ status as a national epicenter for entrepreneurs is soaring as a result.
Good as gold
Kendall Gretsch, a 2014 graduate of the McKelvey School of Engineering in biomedical engineering is on her way to becoming a summer — and winter — Paralympic legend.
Smoothing the path
Medical trailblazer Victoria Fraser, MD, focuses on creating equity in academic medicine.
One of the nation’s earliest student films gets new life
The Maid of McMillan, a silent film from 1916, captures university history on and off the screen.
A new home for humanists
The Lewis Collaborative — a reinvention of a century-old U. City landmark — and a new “studiolab” model are reshaping humanities education at WashU.
Something’s up
Rajan Chakrabarty and Randall Martin research fine particulate matter, trying to create a complete picture of the world’s leading cause of environment-related diseases.
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