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Drawing from her experiences as a WashU Pathfinder, microbiology researcher, and science journalist, Crystal Gammon now serves as the director of communications for Arts & Sciences.

Founded and organized by students, oSTEM, short for "Out in STEM," works to support and build community among queer students studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at WashU.

Dean Hu’s initiative infuses new talent and novel approaches across disciplines. In addition to seven hires who arrived earlier this year, 12 scholars plan to join Arts & Sciences in 2022 as part of the initiative.

Kevin D. McKeegan, a scientist whose analyses of meteorites and other materials from space has improved understanding of the processes and chronology of the early solar system, will deliver the Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis’ McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.

In this Q&A, Byrne describes exploring alien worlds, Earth’s surprisingly cool next-door neighbor (no, not Mars), and how Twitter can be a productive platform for science.

This year, departments spanning the natural sciences and mathematics welcomed new faculty to their ranks.

oSTEM unites LGBTQIA students and their allies through professional development events, activism and an interest in STEM.

Political scientist Bill Lowry, who played a central role in launching and directing the Sustainability Exchange, reflects on the program's success.

The ambitious hiring initiative will recruit interdisciplinary scholars with expertise in digital, spatial, and data sciences.

This spring, departments across Arts & Sciences are hosting speakers virtually for their named lecture series.

We're finding creative ways to continue conducting and supporting research during the pandemic.

In the path of totality, some 300 incoming PhD and graduate students witnessed one of nature’s rarest phenomena — a total solar eclipse, visible only in the United States.

Dr. Raymond Arvidson, a prominent Mars researcher, created the Pathfinder Program for incoming freshmen at Washington University. Every year, 18 freshmen become Pathfinders, embarking on adventures outside the classroom as they learn about environmental sustainability. Eventually, some Pathfinders play a significant role in Mars research.

This spring, Washington University students traveled to southeastern Spain to examine millions of years of sedimentary deposits in basins formed as mountain ranges in the ancient Betic-Rif Arc pulled apart, stretching and dropping the crust between them.

Erik Herzog shares some of his outreach efforts to support and encourage younger neuroscience researchers.