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The Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement successfully convened its first research symposium, “Bridging Research and Community: A Symposium on Community-Engaged Research,” on October 15, 2025, at the Delmar DivINe.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the launch of Design Openings. Created in collaboration with the Kranzberg Arts Center and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, this multiyear initiative invites interdisciplinary St. Louis design teams to animate public life in the Covenant Blu Grand Center neighborhood […]

College Bound is an organization that empowers students in St. Louis facing systemic barriers to achieve transformative lives of higher education and economic possibility through an individualized, holistic, and multi-year investment.   The Confluence Collaborative spoke with Milton Mitchell Jr., College Bound’s Chief Executive Officer, and Kaleigh Lawrence, College Bound’s Chief Philanthropy Officer, about the […]

The Confluence Collaborative sat down with Froggi VanRiper, Co-Director of WashU’s Sustainability Exchange, to discuss the approach of the Exchange, the value of interdisciplinary work, and how WashU can support community-engaged courses.  Faculty and staff from the Sam Fox School, College of Arts & Sciences, and McKelvey School of Engineering launched the Sustainability Exchange in […]

A cross-disciplinary team of WashU researchers has received a five-year $3.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand its work studying the human health effects of flooding in communities in the Mississippi Delta and the St. Louis Metro East region of Illinois.

The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis is partnering with Food Outreach, a St. Louis-based nonprofit, on a two-year pilot project exploring how best to support the nutritional needs of cancer patients as they transition off their medically tailored meal program.

The May 16 tornado made tree inequity worse in majority-Black neighborhoods, but Forest ReLeaf is working to rebuild trust with an innovative program.

For their efforts at improving maternal and infant health outcomes, Shannon Lenze and EleVATE collaborators received WashU’s William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award, which recognizes researchers and community partners who work together to address regional problems.

The St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement is now accepting submissions for the third annual William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award.

Bettina Drake, professor of surgery in public health sciences at the School of Medicine, will be the inaugural faculty director of the St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Practice.