Class of 2026 is 20% Pell Grant-eligible

Washington University has hit a major milestone in its quest to enroll more students with limited resources: 20% of the incoming Class of 2026 is Pell Grant-eligible. Also, 15% of incoming students will be the first in their families to attend college, and 51% identify as students of color.

Cancer’s sugar metabolism is surprisingly conventional

A study in Molecular Cell led by chemist Gary Patti in Arts & Sciences shows that cancer cells don’t want to waste glucose — they just consume it too quickly. The discovery was made possible with metabolomics, which allowed Patti’s team to observe the speed at which molecules move through cells.

Medical students share why scholarships matter

Scholarships help the School of Medicine enroll the most talented students, enabling them to take advantage of a vast array of training and mentorship opportunities. Read about a few students’ goals and their futures in medicine.

Notables

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, the Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Endowed Professor of Oncology and director of the Division of Oncology at the School of Medicine, has been named by OncLive as a member of the Giants of Cancer Care inductee class of 2022.

Research Wire

Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year nearly $600,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research for a research project on topological qubits.

Research Wire

A new technological pairing from the lab of Quing Zhu at the McKelvey School of Engineering may lead to an improved diagnostic tool for colorectal cancer. The results were published in the Journal of Biophotonics.