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Staff of UNICEF China gathered in-person and online for a briefing on Child Development Account (CDA) policy by scholars from the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis and Peking University.

Fischer, professor of medicine at WashU Medicine, heads the school’s Death to Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis Project (DOLF). The program’s dramatic name feels appropriate given the audaciousness of its goal: the complete elimination of two devastating parasitic diseases. Lymphatic filariasis (LF, known as elephantiasis) and onchocerciasis (oncho, known as river blindness) cause illness and disability, affecting millions in tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

Michael Sherraden delivered “Social Work Renewal and Global Partnerships: The Example of Asset Building,” the keynote address at the “Centennial Symposium on Social Work Education,” an event marking the centennial of social work education at Peking University, Beijing, China, on December 7, 2025.

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.

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.

Collaborative research from Guy Genin’s lab and Tsinghua University identifies phase transitions in living tissue that could explain why fibrosis suddenly accelerates Cells convert mechanical forces into signals that influence physiological processes, such as exercise strengthening bones. A research team at Washington University in St. Louis and Tsinghua University in Beijing have discovered that biological […]

Filmmakers of Netflix’s hit “KPop Demon Hunters” partnered with teaching professor Mijeong Mimi Kim to infuse authentic Korean culture into a vibrant fantasy world.

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.

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.