Dancers (from left) junior Aja Welch, senior Christine Mbakwe and junior Kayla Harley perform in the Black Anthology production ”woke,” which took place in Edison Theatre Feb. 12-13, 2016.
(Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University)
Black Anthology presented ”woke” Feb. 12-13, 2016, in Edison Theatre. The annual performance featured some 50 actors, dancers and crew members. Here, senior Dana Robertson performs. (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University)
Dancer Sommer Payne, a senior, performs at Black Anthology. (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University)
Washington University in St. Louis alumnus and COO of Cofactor Genomics Dave Messina (left) joined entrepreneurship and venture capitalist Sam Altman for a standing-room only talk and Q&A session held at Whitaker Hall auditorium Feb. 11. Forbes named Altman, a St. Louis native, a Top Investor Under 30. In 2014, he became President of Y Combinator, a seed-stage accelerator. Messina and Altman talked to the crowd about what it really takes to start a startup. (Photo: Whitney Curtis)
Washington University School of Law hosted a panel discussion “Justice Antonin Scalia: The Legacy and the Vacancy” Feb. 17, 2016, in Anheuser-Busch Hall. School of Law faculty Greg Magarian (left), Neil Richards and Lee Epstein confer with Dean Nancy Staudt before the panel.
(Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington University)
Sean Joe (far right), of the Brown School, served as moderator for “Guns, Suicide and Safety: A Community Forum,” Feb. 15 in Hillman Hall’s Clark-Fox Forum. The event was part of the university’s yearlong initiative “Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis,” which invites scholars, medical professionals, community leaders and citizens to take a hard look at the serious, tragic public health consequences of gun violence in America. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University)
2016 Washington University Sports Hall of Fame inductees were honored during basketball games Feb. 12, 2016. For details on the honorees, visit the Bear Sports website:
http://bearsports.wustl.edu/general/2015-16/2016SportsHOF
(Photo: James Byard/Washington University)
Edwards-Fahey Court in the Field House was dedicated Feb. 16, 2016, in honor of the impressive careers of Washington University men’s basketball coach Mark Edwards and women’s basketball coach Nancy Fahey. Watch a video on Bear Sports: http://bearsports.wustl.edu/general/2015-16/Edwards-Fahey_Court. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University)
Robert Hegel, professor in Arts & Sciences, speaks with art historian Christiane Gruber after participating in a panel discussion on ”The Book as Artifact,” held Feb. 11 in Umrath Lounge. The Center for the Humanities and University Libraries sponsored the panel. Gruber also gave a talk, co-sponsored by the Assembly Series and the Center for the Humanities. (Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington University)
Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, director of Washington University’s Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, prepares for a live broadcast of Science Friday on the Medical Campus on Feb. 19, 2016. Gordon went on the Public Radio International program to talk about new research involving manipulating the makeup of microbes in the gut to provide possible ways to treat and ultimately help prevent childhood malnutrition. (Photo by Robert J. Boston/School of Medicine)
