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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.
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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
Creating a blueprint for helping women patent, commercialize research
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship
A day of reflections on climate change
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Energy, Environment & Sustainability
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Atima Lui
“When you create something that never existed before, when you create an industry or a category that’s completely new, that is true innovation.”
Fuse …Atima Lui
BSBA ’12
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Steven Frankel
“Mathematics is a community activity, not an individual one. I can’t just tell myself to sit in that seat and think. I can’t instruct myself to come up with something interesting out of the blue.”
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Assistant professor of mathematics
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John Morris
Will we ever cure Alzheimer’s? Few drugs have been approved for treatment of this dementia, and none works very well. It has become one of the most intractable problems in medicine.
The New York Times …John Morris
Director of the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
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