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Affordable couture
In 2014, friends Louisa Rechter, AB ’09, and Alessandra Perez-Rubio, BFA ’09, were searching for affordable, black-tie, designer attire to wear to a friend’s wedding. “All we could find were beautiful...
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Meaningful entertainment
Despite majoring in psychology, Sara Taksler, AB ’01 — a senior producer for the satirical news program The Daily Show and a documentary filmmaker — realized at WashU that she wanted to work at the...
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University provides freedom and place to build a life
The telegram arrived in the nick of time. It was April 1942. Months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order #9066. Approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry —...
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Zafar named director of Mellon Mays program
Zafar Rafia Zafar is taking the helm as director of Washington University in St. Louis’ Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program. Zafar is a professor of English, of African and African-American...
View ArticleWiens installed as the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor
Douglas Wiens was installed as the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at a ceremony held Feb. 21 in Holmes Lounge at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the second...
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Peacock: ‘Put us together and magic happens’
Angela Peacock (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) Serve the nation, see the world, learn valuable skills. Life in the Army seemed to offer so much promise to Angela Peacock, especially compared...
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Graduate student accepted into Mellon School program
Finegan Wasmoen Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, a PhD candidate in comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, has been accepted to the prestigious Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research for...
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Speaking of Science
If you sampled science journal articles at random, you might end up reading about photosynthesis, photo-induced bond formation, invasive species and dark matter. Different as the topics might be, the...
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College Prep scholars urged to shine their light
College Prep scholar Meris Saric (left), a senior at Bayless High School, talks with Ronné Turner, vice provost for admissions and financial aid. Saric is one of five College Prep graduates who will...
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Great Artists Series welcomes Nathan Gunn May 5
Henry Purcell was Restoration England’s greatest composer of vocal music. Yet Purcell’s written accompaniments consisted of only figured bass lines — a common 17th century practice — leaving musicians...
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Mellon Mays Fellows cohort named
The latest cohort of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship has been named. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York, the program aims to increase diversity in higher education by...
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Energy and environment initiative turns 10, keeps growing
This Earth Day, leaders at Washington University in St. Louis announced a new name and an increased emphasis on the university’s united energy and environment effort: the International Center for...
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Goldwater Scholars
Three juniors at Washington University in St. Louis have been awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2017-18 academic year. The winners are Emily Goering and Hannah Olsen, who are majoring...
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Music student has work performed in Berlin
Evans Undergraduate Ethan Evans, a sophomore in Arts & Sciences majoring in music and in international and area studies, had an original choral composition, “Lily Valley,” performed at the...
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Pollak named American Economic Association Distinguished Fellow
Pollak The American Economic Association (AEA) elected Robert A. Pollak, the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics at Olin Business School and in Arts & Sciences at Washington University...
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Cao and Hsu share Spector Prize
Each year, the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis awards a prize to a graduating senior in memory of Marion Smith Spector, a 1938 graduate who studied...
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Student films go to Cannes
A drawer slams like a gunshot. Condolence cards are tossed away. A young man collapses, overwhelmed by memory, his eyes bright with shock and loss. In “Grieve,” director Sagar Brahmbhatt depicts...
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Oyama receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Undergraduate Sakura Oyama received a 2017 Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England. Oyama is preparing to graduate this month with a degree in...
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Four faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Four university scientists are among the 84 members and 21 foreign associates recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing...
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Five doctoral candidates inducted as Bouchet fellows
Five Washington University doctoral candidates were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference at Yale University. They are, from left, Jabari Elliott,...
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