Bettina Drake, professor of surgery in public health sciences at the School of Medicine, will be the inaugural faculty director of the St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Practice, Washington University in St. Louis Provost Beverly Wendland announced May 31. The new role takes effect July 1. The collaborative, identified as a […]
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Galea appointed inaugural Margaret C. Ryan Dean of planned WashU School of Public Health
Washington University in St. Louis announced today that Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, one of the world’s most influential public health leaders, will become the inaugural Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the university’s planned School of Public Health, effective Jan. 1. In this critical leadership role, Galea will help shape and launch WashU’s first new school […]
Seeking Faculty Executive Director, St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community engaged Research, Teaching and Practice
Washington University in St. Louis is seeking a senior faculty leader for a newly created St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community-engaged Research, Teaching and Practice. The Faculty Executive Director will spend at least 50% effort in this position and will lead a priority initiative of the Washington University strategic plan – Here and Next. Housed within […]
WashU new School of Public Health founding dean position and candidate specification
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) seeks nominations for and confidential expressions of interest in the position of founding dean for a new School of Public Health. WashU is home to a top ranked accredited MPH program and is now seeking accreditation as a School of Public Health (SPH) in 2025. The founding dean will […]
Advancing public health at Washington University
Search underway for dean, public health conference scheduled, Assembly Series speaker announced. read more
WashU School of Law dean position and candidate specification
Washington University in St. Louis seeks an exceptional leader to serve as the next dean of the School of Law. Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (WashULaw) is a key part of WashU’s profile as an internationally ranked private research university. WashULaw is on the university’s main Danforth campus. Reporting directly to Dr. […]
Four inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University to recognize outstanding scholarly achievement, recently inducted four doctoral candidates from Washington University. Read more
Washington University has unveiled its strategic plan, setting a bold and ambitious path for the next decade.
The plan, “Here and Next,” was developed through 18 months of listening, outreach and work sessions, and incorporates feedback from thousands of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners. Read more
Office of the Provost announces two new Faculty Fellow positions
The Office of the Provost has two new Faculty Fellow positions focused on equitable learning and inclusive pedagogies. Applications due by October 21, 2022 for priority consideration.
Office of the Provost continues support for Tenure-Track Faculty in response to COVID-19
The Office of the Provost is pleased to continue offering a new program to support scholarship by Danforth Campus tenure-track and tenured faculty through the associate professor level in response to the pandemic.
Strategic vision kick off events announced
Washington University invites its community to take part in a series of events to unveil the strategic vision and celebrate the bright future of WashU. . Read more
Undergraduate academic integrity process to be reimagined
Washington University in St. Louis is moving toward a centralized process for handling academic integrity violations at the undergraduate level, in response to feedback from a faculty commission. Jennifer R. Smith, vice provost for educational initiatives, is leading the effort, including establishment of two working groups focused on designing a new academic integrity hearing process […]
Washington University’s Office of the Provost announces third round of race and ethnicity cluster hire
Through the Race and Ethnicity Cluster Hire Initiative, Washington University in St. Louis aims to build a world-class research program on race. Two previous rounds of this cluster hire initiative took place in 2020-21 and 2021-22. This Initiative is funded by the Office of the Provost. It is supported by the Center for the Study of Race, […]
Interdisciplinary ‘Politics of Reproduction’ course to explore history, implications post-Roe v. Wade
The debate over abortion has only intensified in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, returning the issue to states. Since the ruling, 12 states have banned or severely restricted abortion care, and at least 10 other states have bans […]
Guillermo Rosas joins Office of the Provost as a Faculty Fellow for graduate and professional education
Guillermo Rosas is Professor of Political Science in Arts and Sciences. Guillermo’s research focuses on the economic consequences of political regimes and on the effects of political institutions on political elite behavior, especially in Latin America. As a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Provost, Guillermo will work with the Vice Provost for Graduate Education to gather and analyze […]
LaShawnda Fields and her journey to disrupt
Written 6.8.21 During LaShawnda Fields’ last semester as a Washington University doctoral student in social work (PhD ‘20), where she conducted work around identities, she was recruited by the School of Social Work at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, for a full-time assistant professor position. Her friends and colleagues were surprised when she accepted […]
In their own words: Paul Tran discusses their WashU experience, the publishing journey and the role of poetry
Written 3.19.21 Paul Tran, MFA ’19 and Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow, is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Good Morning America, NYLON and in the RZA-directed movie “Love Beats Rhymes” (Lionsgate). Tran won […]
A doctoral student’s converging of themes into chaotic beauty
Written 3.31.21 A 6th year doctoral candidate releases his first book, “Ghost Letters” Baba Badji is a 6th year doctoral candidate in Washington University’s Comparative Literature PhD program. He is a Senegalese-American poet, translator, researcher and a Chancellor’s Fellow who earned a Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies from WashU as well as an MFA in […]
Seizing every opportunity as a Chancellor’s Fellow
Written 5.4.21 María Gandarilla Ocampo, a 3rd year doctoral student in social work, came to Washington University to earn a PhD, but she plans to leave with much more. Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow Gandarilla Ocampo has taken advantage of countless opportunities at WashU – from entering (and winning) the Skandalaris Center Humanists’ start-up pitch competition to taking on a leadership role within the Graduate and Professional Advisory Council and serving on the Liberman Advisory […]
2020 challenges: PhD student pivots to realize opportunities
Written: 1-19-2021 Chanez Symister, a 6th year PhD student in Chemistry, was conducting research in Professor Timothy Wencewicz’s lab when the pandemic hit back in March. While disappointed that her lab was temporarily shutting down due to Covid precautions, Symister learned that she had been selected into the Edward Bouchet Honor Society, a network of preeminent scholars who exemplify […]