WashU’s FARM hosts visit by international food and ag experts
Twenty food and agriculture experts from seven countries visited Washington University in St. Louis on Thursday, February 5, to learn about the School of Public Health’s Food and Agriculture Research Mission (FARM), one of the school’s six research networks.
School-based psychosocial program enhances children’s well-being amid crisis
More than four decades of near-continuous war in Afghanistan has left many people in the country impoverished and traumatized. For children to thrive in these circumstances and break the cycle of generational trauma, they need support — but mental health care is limited and stigmatized in Afghanistan, and inaccessible to the vast majority of Afghan children.
Q&A with Artist Blas Isasi, 2024-25 Freund Fellow
Peruvian artist Blas Isasi was the 2024-25 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at the WashU Sam Fox School.
‘Looking Back Toward the Future’
Celebrated editor, publisher and art collector Larry Warsh recently gifted 56 works of Chinese photography to the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis.
WashU to support UN’s ‘Life on Land’ sustainable development goal
Washington University in St. Louis has been appointed to a United Nations (U.N.) group dedicated to protecting life on land.
A tale of three cities: Book explores gentrification in global context
Using comparative urbanism as their lens, the authors examine the socio-economic and political ramifications of neighborhood gentrification in three prominent global cities—New York, London, and Seoul, South Korea — since the 2007-09 Great Recession.
How Omar Abdelmoity claimed the Marshall Scholarship
Less than 48 hours after he learned he would not be a Rhodes Scholar, WashU senior Omar Abdelmoity hopped on a plane to interview for the equally prestigious — yet somehow more elusive — Marshall Scholarship.
Ancestor in the trees: A closer look at a not-so-distant relative
Sifting through the seemingly endless sands of Ethiopia’s Afar Rift, researchers have uncovered telling remnants of a long-lost human ancestor.
Seniors Abdelmoity, Karinshak were Rhodes Scholars finalists
Washington University in St. Louis seniors Omar Abdelmoity and Marilee Karinshak were finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the globe’s highest academic honors.
A new angle of study for unveiling black hole secrets
The balloon-borne telescope XL-Calibur was launched on a six-day flight from the Swedish Space Corporation’s Esrange Space Center in July 2024. During that flight, the telescope took measurements from the black hole Cygnus X-1, located about 7,000 light-years away. WashU researchers will use those results to improve computer models for simulating and uncovering further mysteries of black holes.