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Benjamin Garcia, PhD, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2025-2026 academic year.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has awarded a $3 million grant to a team at the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis to transform how health research is conducted and how it drives real-world policy change.

At summer camps across the region, kids are playing football, tie-dying T-shirts and building mock volcanoes. But at one WashU summer camp, students are making art to explore an unlikely topic: public health. 

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.

On June 9, the Digital Health Leadership Workshop took place at Impact Hub London Euston. Leaders from both sides of the Atlantic gathered to explore the latest advancements in digital health. Key themes included the crucial need to convert abundant data into actionable insights that benefit patient outcomes.

Amid growing concern over U.S. public health funding cuts, experts at Washington University in St. Louis warn that pulling support from key data systems could erase decades of progress in protecting women and children from violence.  

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).