Welcome! As provost and chief academic officer at Washington University in St. Louis, I am responsible for teaching, learning, scholarship, and research across the Danforth Campus.
I feel privileged to serve as a leader at WashU at this critical time. Universities are uniquely suited to seize this moment. It is in the university that faculty kindle a desire for knowledge in their students who in turn channel a spirit of inquiry into real action. It is in the university that faculty engage in the hard work of understanding the context of a problem and establishing the contours of its solution. Universities are where our past is explored, our present examined, and our future pursued.
Diversity and inclusion
Universities create knowledge and ideas, and better ideas and decisions come from groups of people with different backgrounds and experiences.
News and announcements
Drake appointed inaugural St. Louis Confluence Collaborative faculty director
Galea appointed inaugural Margaret C. Ryan Dean of planned WashU School of Public Health
Seeking Faculty Executive Director, St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community engaged Research, Teaching and Practice
WashU new School of Public Health founding dean position and candidate specification
Faculty honors, awards and grants
Arts & Sciences faculty among world’s most highly cited researchers
Deanna Barch, Jonathan Losos, Richard Vierstra, and Li Yang, all professors in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, have been named to the Institute for Scientific Information’s list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2021.
Seven faculty honored with Emerson teaching awards
Seven faculty members across four undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis have been honored with 2021 Emerson Electric Co. “Excellence in Teaching” awards.
Huang, Whitaker win national landscape architecture honors
Weicong Huang and John Whitaker from the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, have won national honors from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).