Washington University in St. Louis

Biologists have developed a new method to measure the extent to which regional geographic features — including barriers between regions, like mountains or water — affect local rates of speciation, extinction and dispersal for species. As…

Washington University in St. Louis’ McDonnell International Scholars Academy recently announced a new partner university. In an online session, WashU researchers and leadership welcomed the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to the group…

As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to “see” what’s going wrong inside the brains of people with mental illnesses or neurological…

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin will provide the Washington University in St. Louis community with news, updates and other important information during his State of the University address, which will be available to view online starting at 2…

Researchers have been using organoids — 3D organ-like, tightly-packed cell cultures — as models to study organ development, disease and drug discovery with excellent success. However, most existing imaging methods are limited in their…

For the first time in program history, the Washington University in St. Louis men’s track and field team won a team national championship March 12 at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, N.C., site of the 2022 Indoor Track & Field…

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated risks of violence for refugee and migrant girls and women, finds a new report from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and UNICEF.Due to multiple intersecting dimensions of…

Washington University in St. Louis has played a vital role in strengthening the economy of the region and protecting the health of its residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Office of Government & Community Relations states in…

Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a container of lunar soil that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on the surface of the Moon in 1972. The effort is part of NASA’s Apollo Next…

Kurt T. Dirks, vice chancellor for international affairs and director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed director of the George and Carol Bauer Leadership Center and…