Andrea Ghez, who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for her group’s contribution to the discovery of this black hole, spoke at WashU to a lecture hall filled with over 200 students, faculty, and public visitors, on March 26 as part of the 2026 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series. 

Nobel Laureate and University of Chicago professor Jack Szostak delivered two lectures on the origin of life to an audience of professors, graduate, and undergraduate students the Monday and Tuesday before Spring Break.