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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.

Leading Together Campaign

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.

Mary McKay

WashU Faculty

Mary McKay

Neidorff Family and Centene ­Corporation Dean of the Brown School

on promoting a social change agenda

“I see social policy as a lane where we maximize and amplify our impact. We as leaders in social work and public health are willing to advance into leadership areas, where we not only lead fields, but we also lead a policy agenda.”

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Timothy Ley

WashU Faculty

Timothy Ley

Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple ­Professor of Medicine

on researching acute myeloid leukemia

“We now have a sound understanding of the problem: the mutations that we need to go after ­aggressively, the ones we can go after less aggressively, the nature of the ­mutations that need to be targeted and why patients relapse.”

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159 invention disclosures in 2015
About 40% of WashU students study abroad
77 diversity-related student groups on campus
18 of our 24 Nobel Laureates Affiliated with School of Medicine
567,000 plastic bottles eliminated annually
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