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Across all Washington University in St. Louis campuses, scores of researchers share a drive to understand the natural forces that shape our climate, health, culture and physical world.

What do K-pop music and McDonald’s restaurants have in common? Not much, actually. But these iconic institutions are great entry points into the study of modern East Asian culture.

Thanks to the support of a Penelope Biggs Travel Award and the Department of Classics, Lecturer Justin Meyer traveled to Munich and Augsburg this spring to conduct research at the Bavarian State Library and the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg.

Kim Thuy Seelinger, a research associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis, will give a keynote address at the international conference June 2 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Jeanette Mrozinski, a master of fine arts candidate in creative nonfiction in WashU’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize from the Australian Book Review (ABR).

The WashU Empower program will receive a “What’s Right with the Region” Award from Focus St. Louis at its 28th annual celebration event May 15. 

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 further spread.

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.

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program was created in 1946 by the U.S. Congress and funded by the U.S. Government. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs as its flagship program and administered by the Institute of International Education, Fulbright Commissions, and Embassy Posts. It offers over […]

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.”