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Washington University in St. Louis has been appointed to a United Nations (U.N.) group dedicated to protecting life on land.

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.

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.

Sifting through the seemingly endless sands of Ethiopia’s Afar Rift, researchers have uncovered telling remnants of a long-lost human ancestor.

WashU and Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance partner to attract and educate highly talented students pursuing their PhD degree program at WashU. The LPDP (Indonesian Endowment Fund for Education) is a scholarship program managed by the Indonesian Ministry of Finance.   Eligibility This scholarship is open to qualified students of Indonesian citizenship admitted to a full-time […]

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.

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.

Growing up in a world saturated by fear of HIV and AIDS, WashU Public Health’s Massy Mutumba developed a commitment to help her country fight the HIV epidemic.

Proscovia Nabunya, an associate professor at the Brown School, has received a $5 million federal grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to streamline mental health treatment and HIV medication support for adolescents living with HIV in rural Uganda.

Xuehua Zhong, a professor of biology and the Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, has received several major federal grants to advance her pioneering work in plant epigenetics, the molecular processes that regulate gene expression without altering DNA.