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The Office of the Provost is pleased to continue offering a new program to support scholarship by Danforth Campus tenure-track and tenured faculty through the associate professor level in response to the pandemic. 

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Washington University in St. Louis is moving toward a centralized process for handling academic integrity violations at the undergraduate level, in response to feedback from a faculty commission. Jennifer R. Smith, vice provost for educational initiatives, is leading the effort, including establishment of two working groups focused on designing a new academic integrity hearing process […]

Through the Race and Ethnicity Cluster Hire Initiative, Washington University in St. Louis aims to build a world-class research program on race. Two previous rounds of this cluster hire initiative took place in 2020-21 and 2021-22. This Initiative is funded by the Office of the Provost.  It is supported by the Center for the Study of Race, […]

The debate over abortion has only intensified in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, returning the issue to states. Since the ruling, 12 states have banned or severely restricted abortion care, and at least 10 other states have bans […]

Guillermo Rosas is Professor of Political Science in Arts and Sciences. Guillermo’s research focuses on the economic consequences of political regimes and on the effects of political institutions on political elite behavior, especially in Latin America.  As a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Provost, Guillermo will work with the Vice Provost for Graduate Education to gather and analyze […]

Written 6.8.21 During LaShawnda Fields’ last semester as a Washington University doctoral student in social work (PhD ‘20), where she conducted work around identities, she was recruited by the School of Social Work at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, for a full-time assistant professor position. Her friends and colleagues were surprised when she accepted […]

Written 3.19.21 Paul Tran, MFA ’19 and Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow, is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Good Morning America, NYLON and in the RZA-directed movie “Love Beats Rhymes” (Lionsgate). Tran won […]

Written 3.31.21 A 6th year doctoral candidate releases his first book, “Ghost Letters” Baba Badji is a 6th year doctoral candidate in Washington University’s Comparative Literature PhD program. He is a Senegalese-American poet, translator, researcher and a Chancellor’s Fellow who earned a Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies from WashU as well as an MFA in […]

Written 5.4.21 María Gandarilla Ocampo, a 3rd year doctoral student in social work, came to Washington University to earn a PhD, but she plans to leave with much more. Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow Gandarilla Ocampo has taken advantage of countless opportunities at WashU – from entering (and winning) the Skandalaris Center Humanists’ start-up pitch competition to taking on a leadership role within the Graduate and Professional Advisory Council and serving on the Liberman Advisory […]

Written: 1-19-2021 Chanez Symister, a 6th year PhD student in Chemistry, was conducting research in Professor Timothy Wencewicz’s lab when the pandemic hit back in March. While disappointed that her lab was temporarily shutting down due to Covid precautions, Symister learned that she had been selected into the Edward Bouchet Honor Society, a network of preeminent scholars who exemplify […]

The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University to recognize outstanding scholarly achievement, recently inducted four doctoral candidates from Washington University in St. Louis. Named after the first African American doctoral recipient in the United States, the honor society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in […]

The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the launch of a new program to support scholarship by Danforth Campus tenure-track and tenured faculty through the associate professor level in response to the pandemic. This program will offer support in the form of course releases, as well as research and publication grants to eligible faculty. […]