Educational Access

Advancing Secondary Science Education through Tetrahymena (ASSET) is an NIH SEPA funded science education outreach program at Washington University in St. Louis. ASSET has developed a variety of modular science education materials designed to stimulate hands-on, inquiry-based learning of fundamental biological concepts for all grade levels. Among the aims outlined in the grant for the program is reaching populations traditionally underrepresented in science in the St. Louis area.

The Science Media Fellowship program at Washington University School of Medicine’s McDonnell Genome Institute supports local high school students interested in science, journalism, public policy, and more, in addition to how the stories that are told about science influence public perception and public policy. Questions? Want to support the program or recommend one of your […]

At TRIADS, our mission is to explore new datasets and new techniques to understand better and address critical problems facing society today. We create and support transdisciplinary collaborations among scholars to connect big data to big questions.

The WashU Libraries Summer Diversity Internship for High School Students is a new internship program and is also an integral part of the Library’s commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA). This is a 2-week in-person paid internship for students who have completed their junior year of high school and the College Prep Program.

WashU does not have an MLS program, so we will be targeting a currently enrolled MLS student who has an interest in STEM. Mizzou is the closest MLS school, and it offers a fully-online program, so we’ll look for a student located in St. Louis who could come to campus. This program will expose the intern to the wide variety of work of a STEM librarian. The work will be based on a topic of their interest in STEM, like instruction, collection development, outreach, data, etc. Our exceptionally talented STEM librarians will serve as mentors during the semester.

The purpose of R-Ladies St. Louis is to promote gender diversity in the R community through regular meetings and providing support for gender minority users of R in various ways such as conference participation, continuing education, and R package development. The local chapter of R-Ladies holds monthly meetings on various R topics such as data visualization, data wrangling, and app development.

The Newman Exploration Travel Fund (NEXT) aims to support students, faculty, and staff on the Danforth, North, and West Campuses who wish to explore this vast universe.

Starting in 2017 and continuing each fall, KIPP St. Louis has requested the production of a series of static maps showing the locations of their school buildings and the home addresses of the students who attend each school. KIPP staff send an anonymized list of addresses and the school associated with the students at each address. The student and school addresses are geocoded to create spatial points for display on a map. Each school has its own map and an overall map with all schools and student locations is generated as well, resulting in a set of seven or eight maps. Maps are provided to the KIPP St. Louis staff in different formats and sizes, suitable for a variety of uses. As with any map that displays individual addresses, the KIPP staff are advised to use the maps for internal purposes only and not to display publicly.

The Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholars fellowship program is an innovative student-driven community of graduate and undergraduate students. Scholars come from dozens of disciplines and have been sponsored by over 200 colleges and universities—ranging from small liberal arts colleges to large Research 1 institutions. WashU will select two graduate scholars to complete a two-year appointment. Each Scholar will receive a stipend and sponsorship in the 2024 summer Humanities Digital Workshop and sponsorship for the 2025 HASTAC conference.

The Expanding Diversity in Academic Librarianship internship programs are an integral part of the Libraries’ commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) and contribute to a national effort to increase the number of diverse students who obtain Masters’ degrees in library and information studies. The programs will introduce students of color to libraries and library services, which are fundamental to college academic success, and encourage the students to consider academic librarianship as a career.