
As provost and chief academic officer, Provost West is responsible for teaching, learning, scholarship, and research across the Danforth Campus.

Funding Opportunities for Research and Collaboration
WashU is making a significant investment in faculty scholarship through two new funding initiatives. These initiatives encourage faculty to pursue innovative ideas, expand existing scholarship, and collaborate within and across disciplinary boundaries.
Academic Inquiry Research Fund
Provost’s Humanities Collaborative Fund
WashU +AI
WashU+AI is an evolving initiative that ensures WashU students, faculty, and staff have access to appropriate tools and shared learning resources, so AI can be used thoughtfully, responsibly, and effectively in support of teaching, learning, and research.

Diversity and inclusion
Universities create knowledge and ideas, and better ideas and decisions come from groups of people with different backgrounds and experiences.
News and announcements
Report on Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
What We Talk About When We Talk About Excellence
Faculty honors, awards, and grants
Engineering better sleep
Li plans to develop advanced mathematical models to decode circadian rhythms, tackle chronic sleep disorders