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NIH grants recognize the quality and significance of WashU Medicine research in enabling life-changing advances in medicine

Free program is first of its kind in the nation.

WashU has launched a new partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri to support high school students in the organization’s Big Futures college readiness initiative.

This marks the second straight year that WashU has won the annual competition.

External dollars solve major challenges, spark local job growth, development

National Science Foundation grant is largest in McKelvey Engineering history

The STARS College Network, which helps students from small towns and rural communities succeed in college, is doubling its membership to 32 universities. WashU, a founding STARS member, is recruiting and enrolling more rural students since it joined the network.

Washington University in St. Louis will receive a $650,000 grant for a collaborative community project focused on improving economic mobility for Black youth in the St. Louis area.

Washington University in St. Louis has announced the 11th cohort of the College Prep Program, a free multi-year program that prepares first-generation, limited-income students for college. This summer, the new cohort of 37 rising high school sophomores will engage in two weeks of on-campus academic and social programming.

The School of Continuing & Professional Studies Prison Education Project held its first commencement May 16 at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo. The ceremony followed a May 15 commencement, the project’s third, at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center for men in Pacific.