Alumni Newsletters

Winter 2025: Learning without limits: A conversation with Courtney Richman AB ’17 about life as a resident, WashU, and being a lifelong learner; It's a worm's world: regeneration and regrowth in the Özpolat lab.

 

Winter 2023: A conversation with Boris Igić (’99) about WashU, the joy of community, and some very important tomatoes; Elizabeth Carlen and two of her undergraduate researcher work to bring science outside the walls of WashU.

 

Fall 2022: Alumna writes book to highlight the stories of black women physicians; student-led consulting group brings science beyond the bench; a new policy piece advocates for new classroom approaches to fix the national exodus of students from STEM fields 

 

Spring 2022: Goins joins Biology with a passion for helping all students succeed; Microbiologist chases climate change solutions in wetlands soils; undergruate student describes her experience in the Biotech Explorers Pathway program

 

Winter 2021: Alumnus reflects on professor who helped him achieve life goal; WashU course prepares scientifically literate citizens; using mirobes to make carbon-neutral fuel

 

Spring 2021: Beronda Montgomery on translating lessons from science to metaphors for living; WashU undergrads perform drug discovery research; pandemic magnifies potential of GEP

 

Winter 2020: Barbara Kunkel on being a woman in science; local disease plant research during pandemic; training the next generation of scientists and educators

 

Spring 2020: Kiani Arkus Gardner runs for Congress; Seniors trade pipettes for Zoom; Continuing a tradition of moss research

 

Winter 2019: Lucas Harrington talks about unleashing the power of the CRISPR system; Stan Braude awarded teaching award; student wins 3MT competition