The View From Here 2.19.18

February 19, 2018

Day of Discovery 2018 — Psychologist and author Meg Jay (left), keynote speaker Feb. 13 for the university’s Day of Discovery & Dialogue, visits with Lori White (right), the event’s co-chair and vice chancellor for student affairs, on the Medical Campus. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)

Day of Discovery education panel — Karen Hall, superintendent of Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District, speaks during a panel of local public school leaders discussing the Ferguson Commission’s call to action for youth as part of the university’s Day of Discovery & Dialogue Feb. 14 in Hillman Hall. (Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington University)

exhibit on women's perseverance — Members of the campus community study “The Resilient Souls Project,” an exhibit of portraits that celebrates women’s perseverance, Feb. 14 in Hillman Hall. The project is the work of Brown School alumna Cathy Lander-Goldberg and is on display through March 3. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)

Shon Hopwood — Lawyer and author Shon Hopwood, who gave an Assembly Series address about criminal justice reform Feb. 8 in Anheuser-Busch Hall, signs copies of his book at the event. (Photo: Mary Butkus/Washington University)

Inazu and Patel — John Inazu, the university’s Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion, and Eboo Patel, a visiting scholar in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, held a discussion Feb. 6 in Knight Hall, the first of three in the series “Religion and Politics in an Age of Fracture.” (Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington University)

health happening fair — Deepanjali Dummi, a coding compliance manager in the Department of Surgery, tests her hand strength Feb. 13 at a table run by the Program in Occupational Therapy at the School of Medicine’s annual Health Happening Fair at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. (Photo: Matt Miller/School of Medicine)

health happening fair — Patricia Alldredge (in gray) and Jaqueline Snider take a selfie Feb. 13 inside an inflatable colon at the School of Medicine’s Health Happening Fair at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. (Photo: Matt Miller/School of Medicine)

Frederick Douglass Day celebration — Rafia Zafar, of Arts & Sciences (holding cake), and her class joined a live-streamed national transcribe-a-thon of former slave records as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s celebration of Frederick Douglass Day Feb. 14. (Photo: Marilyn Nance)

Students at the movie "Black Panther" — The Department of African and African-American Studies and the African Students Association hosted a private screening Feb. 15 at Galleria 6 Cinemas of the highly anticipated movie “Black Panther.” Before the film, Gerald Early, of Arts & Sciences, provided the students an overview of the history of the Black Panther character and the Black Panther Party. (Photo courtesy of Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo)

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J. Claude Evans, philosopher, 79

James Ballard, former director of Engineering Communication Center, 79

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