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A team of WashU researchers and engineers has won a $3.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and install gamma-ray cameras for the Small-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), the smallest of the three classes of telescopes the observatory will deploy. The telescopes are planned for the observatory’s Southern Hemisphere site in Paranal, Chile.

The Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professor of Public Health talks hunger, nutrition and the promise she sees in the new School of Public Health

Bronwen Konecky has won a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to study rainfall changes in the Central America and northern South America region

Near a remote beach on the coastline of Nicaragua, about 12 kilometers from the border of Costa Rica, Edya Kalev, AB ’92, guides a group of women as they each apply gentle, purposeful pressure to their hands, feet and spine.

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.

WashU grad student working to conserve endangered reptiles, amphibians in Honduras

Can improved nutrition during pregnancy help prevent stunted growth in children around the world? With partners in Ecuador, Lora Iannotti studies the effects of maternal diet on infant brain development.

In the course “Not a Piece of Cake: Culinary Crossroads of Latin American Cultures,” Elzbieta Sklodowska, the Randolph Family Professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, focuses on the history and cultural significance of chocolate and many other foods.

WashU’s new network for Hispanic, Latinx and Latin American alumni is nearly 20 years in the making. In 2002, Jorge Castillo, AB ’06, arrived on campus as one of roughly 3% of Washington University undergraduates who identified as Latinx.* He was drawn to WashU by the Annika Rodriguez Scholars Program, a merit-based and service-driven scholar […]

Dr. Lindsay Stark, associate dean for Global Strategy and Programs, Dr. Ilana Seff, research assistant professor, and Dr. Byron Powell, associate professor, at the Brown Schoool, received a $666,125 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study a humanitarian program implementation for adolescent girls in Colombia who were recently forcibly displaced from Venezuela. They […]