The Academy of Educators is a service-based Academy with a selective membership. Members who are elected are expected to actively participate in academy events, including attendance and participation in scheduled Academy meetings. Members will be asked to self-report on engagement on an annual basis, including programming they wish to see developed or expanded. Applications for […]
Office of the Chancellor June 18, 2020 Dear Washington University community, When I wrote to you last week, I promised I would come back this week with three things: 1) A plan for engagement within our university community, starting this month; 2) Concrete actions geared toward addressing systemic racism and its toll on our Black […]
Douglas Flowe on emancipation, current protests and the moment the nation truly becomes free. Read More
Dear DBBS Community, We are inspired by the sentiment of #ShutdownSTEM, hence we are aligning our Division with its aims and participating. As we highlighted in the letter to our community last week, we are committed to centering anti-racist policy and work. We fully support our DBBS community participating in this action. Should students, faculty, or […]
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new online program at Washington University in St. Louis to train pre- and post-doctoral biomedical research trainees in innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E)! The NIH-funded Entrepreneurship for Biomedicine (E4B) training program is taught fully online and FREE. Applications for Summer 2020 are open and spots are limited! […]
Mental well-being resources for faculty, staff, postdoc’s, fellows and residents.
Supported by an Institutional Training Grant Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to enhance training of MD-only candidates performing basic science research, the program seeks to support outstanding individuals committed to a career as a physician-scientist. This program aims to alleviate the Scholar’s financial stress and provide them with mentorship, institutional support, and the protected […]
Find updated information on Becker Library operations and online resources at becker.wustl.edu/covid-19. Key information and resources are below. Remote Access to Resources Most of Becker Library’s resources are available online. This includes databases, journals and e-books. Full text is available off campus with a VPN connection or a Becker proxy server account. Becker Library is extending temporary proxy server access to faculty and staff at no […]
Due to severe disruptions in academic career progress imposed by pandemic conditions, the tenure probationary period will be tolled (paused) for one year for all faculty members currently in their probationary period and for all faculty members who commence their probationary period from this day forward for the next 15 months, through June 30, 2021. […]
Posted on March 26, 2020 by Mike Lauer The public health emergency due to COVID-19 is causing difficulties in many aspects of our lives. My colleagues and I here at NIH are well aware of the challenges being felt in the research community as institutions are closing, people are being asked to practice social distancing, and resources and […]