Martín García-Vázquez, Guanyi Wang, Ismael Mourifié, Ping Wang, and Rudolph Chan are Spring 2026 Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Awardees.

MNI spoke with Wash U economist Yongseok Shin about AI's chilling effect on hiring this year

Congratulations to our Fall 2025 Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Awardees!

If you happened to be in New York City last weekend, perhaps you saw a Times Square billboard promoting a very WashU pastime: Student Life Games. There, smiling from the 55-by-31-foot digital display, were crossword creators and founders of the newspaper’s games page, recent graduate Alex Nickel (Economics Alumni) and sophomore Rena Cohen.

Congratulations, Rudolph Chan! The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy has awarded a total of $135,000 to support four exceptional PhD students in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology through the 2025–2026 Weidenbaum Graduate Fellowship.

We are pleased to announce that several A&S graduate programs have risen in the U.S. News and World Report rankings this year.

Ismael Mourifié, a rising economist, discusses his groundbreaking research into the role gender plays in career path selection.

Join us in recognizing the achievements and memories of faculty members who are closing out their careers in Arts & Sciences.

For weeks, stock markets have been falling, and the plunge accelerated after President Donald Trump on April 2 unveiled U.S. tariffs on virtually every country.