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.

Arts & Sciences researchers are working across disciplines to prevent, treat, and ultimately defeat Alzheimer’s disease.

Natalie Mueller’s research explores how humans and domesticated plants have shaped one another for thousands of years.

Graduate student Shravan Menon identified a phenomenon that could catch an extreme case of general relativity in action.

As the Literacies for Life and Career program expands, faculty are adapting how those skills are taught in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences classrooms. 

Cancer cells are ravenous eaters. Gary Patti is trying to turn their hunger against them.

Meredith Jackrel and her team devised a new high-tech method to generate an enzyme that can break down misfolded proteins that cause neurodegenerative disease.

Mia Kouveliotes came to WashU committed to mental health advocacy. Now graduating in the first cohort of the university’s Program in Public Health & Society, she has turned that interest into research, advocacy, and a full-tuition scholarship.