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We are a community where you can be an individual and achieve exceptional things. We are committed to learning and exploration, to discovery and impact.
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A Lasting Impact
Together, we are investing in the future, driven by a passion for excellence and the desire to benefit our community, our nation and our world.
We are driven to meet the world’s challenges.
Washington University is a place where you can push the boundaries of what it means to learn. We are enriched by wide-ranging exploration and inspired by big ideas as we create new knowledge for an ever-changing world.
Vital issues facing industrialized nations offer opportunities for collaboration
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Global Engagement
Culturally-adapted intervention may help Hispanics with serious mental illness
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Diversity & Inclusion
A multifaceted approach aims to detect, treat and even reverse autism
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Advancing Human Health
Six tips on entrepreneurism from WashU experts
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Student-designed CRETE house argues for energy-efficient concrete
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Energy, Environment & Sustainability
WashU Faculty
Will Ross
Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
on understanding and treating underserved patients
“All students benefit from learning about public health, and not just from a clinical perspective. It teaches compassion and empathy. This is part of our moral responsibility as a medical school.”
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WashU Faculty
Patty Heyda
Associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
on rebuilding the American city
“In my work, I try to understand and visualize the social, economic and political priorities that are really shaping our cities.”
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