Johnson and Mark Jellinek will join the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences as professors.

Staps, a biologist who recently joined Arts & Sciences through the Rules of Life initiative, uses mathematical theory to look into the origins of multicellular life deep into our past.

Senior Calvin Crossland found a balance between passion and practicality by pursuing majors in economics and history, two disciplines that help him understand how the world works and how it came to be.

For transfer student Kate Dieffenbacher, a fresh start at WashU and a willingness to dive into campus life helped her discover a path to a dual major in psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and marketing in Olin Business School.

After initially pursuing biology, junior Vinisha Tripathi switched to a public health and society major with a biology minor. In the process, she found a way to pair the science of biology with the storytelling and human focus of public health. 

This fall, nearly 30 new researchers and instructors join departments and programs across Arts & Sciences. 

Jez, the new vice dean of graduate studies, explains his plans to ready students for multiple career paths in industry, academia, and beyond.

From “Moby-Dick” to the Northwest Passage, Blum follows literary questions beyond the archive and into the environments that shaped them.

Guided by graduate student Tasman Ezra, a WashU undergraduate turns classroom skills into field research and gains a deeper understanding of what it means to be a scientist.