Washington University in St. Louis

Research from Washington University in St. Louis exposes the deadly legacy of redlining, the 1930s-era New Deal practice that graded neighborhoods by financial risk and solidified the notion that an area’s property value was proportional…

J.D. Burton has been named vice chancellor for government relations at Washington University in St. Louis, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin. He will begin the role March 27.Burton has served as the chief government relations…

Lisa Weingarth, vice president of external affairs at the St. Louis-based nonprofit Rung for Women, has been named to the newly created role of senior adviser for St. Louis initiatives in the Office of the Chancellor at Washington…

Vivienne Chang and Eugenia Yoh met back in 2019 at a campus hotpot party hosted by the Taiwanese Students Organization. The two students soon learned, not surprisingly, they both loved the food, culture and people of Taiwan where they…

Patients with glioblastoma, a devastating brain cancer, receive treatment that frequently leads to the unfortunate side effect of low white blood cell counts that lasts six months to a year. The low numbers of white blood cells are…

Researchers have been looking to replace silicon in electronics with materials that provide a higher performance and lower power consumption while also having scalability. An international team is addressing that need by developing a…

As Chet Hunter, assistant director of emergency management at Washington University in St. Louis, watched paramedics treat Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin earlier this month for cardiac arrest, he experienced two powerful emotions: one,…

Washington University in St. Louis Emeritus Trustee and alumnus Robert Frick and his wife, Barbara, have made a gift to establish a pilot initiative at the university to encourage an understanding of, and commitment to, civil discourse,…

Intimate partner violence is pervasive in humanitarian settings and its impacts are far-reaching, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.“We demonstrated that intimate partner violence was…

It’s 8 p.m. on a chilly Thursday and the members of Contra, the men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, are singing “Walking on Sunshine” as they warm up for practice. For the next two hours, the players will sprint, leap, block and dive as they…