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The Record highlights the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, the road that led to her substantial research on the health and well-being of diverse communities, and her manifest impact in the St. Louis area and beyond. Read the article here.

The Campus Pride Index is the premier LGBTQIA+ national benchmarking tool for colleges and universities. Previously at a 4.5, Washington University in St. Louis is now receiving full marks along with only 44 other schools out of the 400 institutions surveyed – the only in the state of Missouri. View the WashU Campus Pride Index […]

The McDonnell International Scholars Academy announced the recipients of the 2022 Global Incubator Seed Grants. The program aims to stimulate high-impact research initiatives linking WashU faculty and international collaborators. You can learn more about the initiative and read the list of recipients here.

Established in 1953 to celebrate the institution’s founding 100 years earlier, Founders Day also marks a time when the university community gathers to recognize distinguished alumni, faculty and friends of the university. Seven faculty were awarded for their outstanding contributions to students, as well as service to the Washington University and St. Louis communities at […]

The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures (ITF), a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan, was created to catalyze and support bold collaborations that foster the future of scholarly inquiry. ITF achieves its mission to nurture innovative academic configurations in part by funding multiyear thematic clusters and programmatic grants. These clusters and grants bring […]

Javier García Liendo, an associate professor in Arts & Sciences and a faculty fellow in the Center for the Humanities, explains his book project, which considers teachers’ role as agents of rural progress in the Andean provinces of Peru between 1939 and 1967. You can read the interview here.

Diana Montaño, assistant professor of History in Arts & Sciences received The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), 2022 for the book Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021). She won the Canadian Association for Latin American and […]

Bruce Carlson, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, recently won a $980,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study neuronal plasticity and the evolvability of behavior. Carlson and his team are examining how changes in an animal’s behavior alter the sensory feedback the animal receives, in turn leading to […]

Young-Shin Jun, Zhen (Jason) He, Vijay Ramani, Fuzhong Zhang to lead new projects focus on creating new clean energy technologies. You can read the announcement here.

Calvin Lai, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a $230,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. You can read more about this news here.

The American Psychological Foundation has awarded its Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Prize to Deanna Barch, chair of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.  Read more about this award

Elizabeth Katz, associate professor of law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, has been selected as the 2021-2022 Haub Law Emerging Scholar in Gender & Law by Pace University for her paper “Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women’s Legal Right to Hold Public Office.” The Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award is presented annually in recognition […]

Mungai Mutonya, teaching professor of African and African American studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a second fellowship from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to continue the collaborative educational project initiated at the University of Nairobi during his 2021 fellowship. Read more about the award

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) Has named Zhen “Jason” He, a professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, a fellow of the organization. Read more about the award

Adia Harvey Wingfield is one of two recipients of the 2022 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, presented by the American Sociological Association (ASA). She will be honored at an Aug. 7 ceremony during the association’s annual meeting in Los Angeles. Read more about the award

The Office of the Provost has appointed Seema Dahlheimer, Senior Lecturer in McKelvey School of Engineering, and Heather Rice, Teaching Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences as the inaugural TRaP (Teaching, Research, and Practice) Fellows who will work on policies and programming to support TRaP faculty during Spring 2022.

Professor Sánchez Prado was interviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education on why ethnic studies is so essential after the media response to the Atlanta massacre. Professor Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies and his areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literature theory, […]

Douglas Flowe, Assistant Professor of History, received the 2021 Littleton-Griswold for his book, Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York (Univ. of North Carolina Press). His work has been published in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of African American History, and others, and he has recently appeared in a variety of media formats […]

Dr. Jessica Gold sits on a panel on St. Louis Public and reflects on “12 Months Of COVID-19 — The Losses, The Struggles And The Lessons”. A year ago this Saturday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic, just a few hours after then-President Trump declared it a national […]

Claire Masteller, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won a $149,417 grant from the U.S. Army Research Office’s Early Career Program.  The award supports Masteller’s experimental exploration of feedbacks between fluvial bedrock erosion processes and rock damage processes.