The WashU Engineers Without Borders group has worked for years to improve hospital infrastructure and access to affordable health care through a nonprofit in Uganda. Over winter break, a team of students and faculty traveled there to put their engineering concepts into practice, helping improve reliable power and safe, accessible water.

Our work is far from done. But lowering the barriers to higher education benefits St. Louis, benefits Missouri and benefits WashU itself. Most of all, it benefits talented and deserving students, writes Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

Wells may have been right about the unending demands of freedom. In many ways, we continue to fight her fight against the erasure of Black history in American history. She was also right that it is a heroic act to care for our fellow humans while we pursue a more just world, writes Amy Gais.