Machine learning could help predict adherence to HIV treatment
Nearly 85% of the 1.7 million adolescents with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, along with half of the nearly 40 million people in the world living with HIV. Although the government in Uganda provides free antiretroviral treatment (ART), adherence to the regimen by adolescents ages 10-16 is low, increasing the potential for the virus to […]
World-renowned experts in tropical plant biodiversity join WashU, Missouri Botanical Garden
Building on a long history of successful collaboration, Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden are welcoming two internationally recognized botanists who will have joint appointments with both research institutions. Lúcia Lohmann, a botanist and conservationist known for her extensive research in the Amazonian rainforest, became president and director of the Missouri […]
Bonvehi Rosich, Denizen selected for 2025 Venice Biennale
Assistant Professor Seth Denizen and Visiting Assistant Professor Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich have been selected to present their work at the 2025 Venice Biennale. They will share images, documentation, and more of their project, “Three Landscape Essays: Mobile Ecosystems for Future Climates.” Installed in a courtyard in Madrid, the moveable gardens aim to “confront the material fact of the ongoing […]
WashU rises in global patent ranking
The National Academy of Inventors recently named WashU to its Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted Utility Patents.
The Arts & Sciences senior has researched public health initiatives through an anthropological lens in Uganda, Switzerland, and St. Louis
Victoria Wright has always been a curious person. WashU has allowed her to embrace that curiosity and explore her many interests. Take her double major, for example: The Arts & Sciences senior is studying both philosophy-neuroscience-psychology (PNP) and anthropology, concentrating on cognitive neuroscience and global health and environment. Wright recently talked with the Ampersand about her time at WashU, her upcoming graduation […]
Backman-Levy selected for global health leadership program
Jessica Backman-Levy, an associate professor of practice at the Brown School, has been selected to participate in a yearlong program aimed at advancing women into senior leadership positions in global health.
Helping herps in Central America
WashU grad student working to conserve endangered reptiles, amphibians in Honduras
Jun receives Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering award
Young-Shin Jun, professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been chosen to receive a 2025 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The awards program, initiated as part of the 2011 International Year […]
WashU Medicine and Weizmann Institute of Science establish joint research program
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in Israel have launched a collaboration to support joint research projects focused on understanding the role of microbes and the immune and nervous systems in human health and disease.
Darden named a Gates Cambridge Scholar
Washington University in St. Louis senior Elijah Darden has been selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which fully funds postgraduate study and research at the University of Cambridge.