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Saint Louis University Invests Up to $1.5 Million Annually in Future Public Health Leaders

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Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice has launched the Healthier STL Scholarship, a new initiative designed to prepare the next generation of public health and health management professionals committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the St. Louis region.

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Faculty Research
Autism Diagnoses Rising Fastest Among Girls and Women, According to New JAMA Research

A new Saint Louis University study of nearly a decade of health records finds that the recent rise in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses is being driven largely by girls and women, who are being identified at significantly higher rates than in years past, often years later than boys and men. The JAMA Network study, led by Erick Messias, M.D., Ph.D., chair and professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, analyzed electronic health records for 171,134 patients across a large Midwestern healthcare system from 2016 to 2024.

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Campus Life
St. Louis Shakespeare Festival TourCo to Perform on SLU’s Quad September 1

Saint Louis University’s quad will become center stage Sept. 1 as the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival TourCo makes its campus debut with a free outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by Rebekah Scallet. The show will begin at 6:30 p.m. and is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and community members. Doughboy’s Wood Fired Pizza, Go Gyro Go and Scoops & More food trucks will open at 5 p.m., offering refreshments for purchase. Complimentary parking will be available in the Laclede Garage.

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Faculty Excellence
SLU’s Sarah Adam Wins Gold at WWR World Championship

Sarah Adam, OTD, assistant professor of occupational science and occupational therapy at Saint Louis University, is a world champion. Adam and her teammates with USA Wheelchair Rugby earned a gold medal at the 2026 World Wheelchair Rugby World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Team USA defeated Australia on Sunday, Aug. 23, in the championship final to earn the program its first world championship since 2010.

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Student Research
From Saint Louis to Kampala: Lily McMorrow Takes Cancer Research Global

Lily McMorrow has earned an NIH LAUNCH Fellowship to advance cancer research at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala. McMorrow, a fifth-year M.D./Ph.D. student at Saint Louis University, brings her research to an international stage, exploring the impact of international funding disruptions on cervical cancer prevention, the leading cause of cancer death among Ugandan women. Her work reveals SLU’s commitment to health equity and global service.

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Student Experiments
Saint Louis University Students to Send Experiment to the International Space Station

Saint Louis University students will design and send a science experiment to the International Space Station as part of Mission 22 of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). SLU’s experiment will be flown to the International Space Station, along with others from around the country, in summer 2027. SSEP is run by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and operates at each school as a local flight-experiment design competition. The student teams at each institution develop their own microgravity research proposal.

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Campus Life
Saint Louis University to Hold Conference on AI and Autonomous Supply Chain

Saint Louis University’s Center for Supply Chain Excellence will host its third Tech-Chain conference, “Generative AI, Agentic AI, and the Road to the Autonomous Supply Chain,” on Friday, Oct. 30, at SLU’s Busch Student Center. The third annual conference will convene more than 200 senior supply chain leaders for a day focused on Generative AI, Agentic AI, and the road to the autonomous supply chain. This year’s theme — “Generative AI, Agentic AI, and the Road to the Autonomous Supply Chain” — reflects the industry’s rapid shift from AI experimentation to operationalized, agent-driven supply chains.

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