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The tightrope of ‘Cabaret’
WashU’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present “Cabaret” in Edison Theatre Oct. 27 to Nov. 5. (Photo: Jack Rushen/Performing Arts Department) Leave your troubles outsideSo life...
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Graduate student Berry tackles chemistry of green energy
Washington University in St. Louis graduate student Ashlynn Berry was recently honored with a Department of Energy Graduate Student Research award, and is a member of the WashU student group Catalyst...
View ArticleSome parasites turn hosts into ‘zombies’
From haunted houses to video games, movies and trick-or-treaters, zombies are everywhere this time of year. But zombies aren’t real — or are they? While the flesh-eating undead portrayed on television...
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Strong evidence found for new light isotope of nitrogen
With only two neutrons to its seven protons, Nitrogen-9 represents the first known case of a nucleus that decays by emitting five protons from its ground state. Robert Charity, a research professor of...
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Phillips wins University City literary award
Phillips Carl Phillips, a professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the 2023 Tradition of Literary Excellence Award from the University City...
View ArticleOlsen installed as a George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of...
Kenneth Olsen, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been installed as a George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology. Olsen...
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Dan Shea, professor emeritus of English, 86
Dan Shea (Photo courtesy of Kathleen Williams) Dan Shea, a professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, while in hospice care...
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Chen wins digital humanities fellowship
Chen Ruochen Chen, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a Gale Non-Residential Fellowship from the Association for...
View ArticleGordon to discuss history of racial segregation, urban inequality
For the first half of the 20th century, St. Louis and St. Louis County — like many communities throughout the Midwest — utilized racial covenants to uphold segregation and restrict who could occupy...
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Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures
It’s a multibillion dollar question: What will happen to water as temperatures continue to rise? There will be winners and losers with any change that redistributes where, when and how much water is...
View ArticleMcLeod Writing Prize winners named
The College Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis celebrated the winners of this year’s Dean James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize in September and marked the...
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Lembke invited to White House for AI ceremony
Washington University in St. Louis junior Emma Lembke, founder of the internet safety organization Log Off, was invited to the White House Oct. 30 to observe President Joe Biden sign an executive...
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Sue Taylor, longtime music instructor, 85
Taylor Sue Taylor, a longtime teacher of applied music in harp in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died peacefully at home Monday, Oct. 30, 2023....
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St. Louis International Film Festival screenings begin on campus Nov. 10
Beulah Mae Mitchell spent 45 years working at Mattel. In the late 1970s, she began asking a simple question: “Why not make a Barbie that looks like me?” In “Black Barbie,” Mitchell’s niece, the...
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How underground fungi shape forests
A large study involving 43 research plots in the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) Network — including a swath of trees at Tyson Research Center, the environmental field station of...
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Senior Tori Harwell selected as a Rhodes Scholar
Washington University in St. Louis senior Victoria “Tori” Harwell has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar, the 30th winner in university history. Harwell was among the 32 students nationwide selected...
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No. 2 women’s soccer returns to Sweet 16
Been there, done that. For the 18th time in program history, the Washington University in St. Louis women’s soccer team returns to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III Championship tournament, this...
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St. Louis online rental market reflects biases, neighborhood stigma, study finds
Housing websites, like Zillow, screen listings for discriminatory language that violates the Fair Housing Act. Yet even without explicit discriminatory language, many online listings still reflect the...
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The lost art of co-existence
Samantha Campisi (left) plays Veronica, AJ Harness ai Michael, Hope McKinney is Annette and Amariyon Green is Alan in the PAD production of “God of Carnage.” (All photos: Jack Rushen/Performing Arts...
View ArticleSanz awarded Saint Louis Zoo Conservation Award
Biological anthropologist Crickette Sanz, the James W. and Jean L. Davis Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the 2023 Conservation Award from the Saint Louis...
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