WashU has launched a 2025 Digital Transformation Summer Corps, an interdisciplinary program that brings together students and faculty from across the university to address pressing societal challenges through digital innovation.
Among the eight selected teams is a WashU Law and McKelvey School of Engineering initiative that will explore how emerging AI technologies are reshaping legal systems, ethical standards, and public understanding of privacy.
The program brings together 13 faculty members and 19 students from six WashU schools and the Center for the Environment. Throughout the summer these teams will work on projects ranging from modeling campus movement patterns to developing a chatbot that simplifies access to Missouri vital records.
Students will receive guidance from six faculty mentors, meeting weekly for code reviews and progress reports. The D12 Accelerator’s staff, including AI Engineer Adith Jagadish Boloor, will advise the projects throughout the summer. At the end of the program, teams will collaborate with campus partners to identify funding opportunities and receive proposal writing assistance to scale their work further.
For more information about the projects and to follow their progress, visit https://di2accelerator.wustl.edu/digital-transformation-corps/.