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How Doing the Laundry Prepared Me for Success — the Benefits of Student Entrepreneurship

Entering college, I was eager to explore entrepreneurship. I had already consumed books like Shoe Dog, No Rules Rules, and Trailblazer, each revealing how bold ideas, resilience, and customer obsession build great companies. On a tour of Washington University in

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WashU’s Trusted Tap will empower households to monitor water quality

WashU’s Trusted Tap project is tackling one of the biggest challenges in public health and sustainability: how to ensure every household in America knows what’s really coming out of their tap. Backed by the National Science Foundation, Trusted Tap brings together engineers,

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Skandalaris Center Fall Hackathon: A Weekend of Collaboration & Creativity

The Skandalaris Center recently hosted its Fall Hackathon, bringing together more than 80 bright minds to tackle real-world problems through innovation, collaboration, and plenty of late-night snacks. From vibe code to no code, teams created app-based solutions to their chosen

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From WashU to the US Open: Growing SPARC and Championing Mental Performance

This past summer, I worked out of the Skandalaris Center as part of the Launchpad program, developing SPARC, our digital mental performance platform supporting athletic programs across the country. Mental performance is one of the most neglected areas in athletics, held back by

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Public company buys startup using WashU’s AI technology to assess breast cancer risk

Prognosia, a firm founded by researchers at Washington University, has been acquired by Lunit, a publicly traded AI cancer screening firm in South Korea. Led by WashU Medicine researchers Graham Colditz and Shu “Joy” Jiang, Prognosia earlier this summer received

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