Prof. Gisele Marcus teaches the Leading Across Differences class in Simon Hall at WashU
Advancing academic excellence and innovation at WashU.

Welcome! As provost and chief academic officer at WashU, I am responsible for teaching, learning, scholarship, and research across the Danforth Campus.

I feel privileged to serve as a leader at WashU at this critical time. Universities are uniquely suited to seize this moment. It is in the university that faculty kindle a desire for knowledge in their students who in turn channel a spirit of inquiry into real action. It is in the university that faculty engage in the hard work of understanding the context of a problem and establishing the contours of its solution. Universities are where our past is explored, our present examined, and our future pursued.

Provost Beverly Wendland
Two students in regalia have a celebratory handshake

Diversity and inclusion

Universities create knowledge and ideas, and better ideas and decisions come from groups of people with different backgrounds and experiences.


Faculty honors, awards, and grants

Engineering better sleep

Li plans to develop advanced mathematical models to decode circadian rhythms, tackle chronic sleep disorders

Seven faculty honored with Emerson teaching awards

Seven faculty members across four undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis have been honored with 2021 Emerson Electric Co. “Excellence in Teaching” awards.|Seven faculty members across four undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis have been honored with 2021 Emerson Electric Co. “Excellence in Teaching” awards.

Huang, Whitaker win national landscape architecture honors

Weicong Huang and John Whitaker from the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, have won national honors from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).|Weicong Huang and John Whitaker from the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox […]

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