Professor meets with audience members
Sahar Aziz, of Rutgers University, meets with audience members during a reception following her lecture titled “The Palestine Taboo: Race, Islamophobia and Free Speech” Sept. 23 in Anheuser-Busch Hall’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom. The lecture was sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. (Photo: J.J. Lane/WashU)
Speaker at podium
Patrick Davis, of the Unbound Editions Press, speaks to the audience during the William H. Gass Centenary Celebration Oct. 3 in Holmes Lounge. (Photo: Dan Donovan/WashU)
Froggi VanRiper leads a foraging tour
Froggi VanRiper (center with hat), a lecturer in Arts & Sciences, leads a fall foraging tour of edible plants on the Danforth Campus. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)
Community members go on a foraging walk
Campus community members attend a fall foraging tour of edible plants Oct. 1 on the Danforth Campus. The tour took place on World Vegetarian Day. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)
Shira Billet speaks to audience
Shira Billet, of the Jewish Theological Seminary, discusses how the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and campus protests have affected the teaching of Jewish philosophy and politics during a Sept. 27 talk in Hurst Lounge. (Photo: J.J. Lane/WashU)
Panelists engage in discussion
Peter Boumgarden (left), director of the Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise; Jason Hall, CEO of Greater St. Louis Inc.; Tony Sardella, chair of the API Innovation Center; Missouri Sen. Brian Williams; and Olin Business School Dean Mike Mazzeo (right) discuss opportunities for community stakeholders to collaborate to attract and retain talent in St. Louis at the Data for Good conference Oct. 9 in Emerson Auditorium. (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./WashU)
Panelists engage in discussion
Lisa Weingarth (left), senior advisor for St. Louis Initiatives at WashU; Subash Alias, CEO of the Missouri Partnership; Sean Armstrong, dean of the School of Continuing & Professional Studies at WashU; Maxine Clark, chief inspirator of the Delmar Divine; and Sam Fiorello (right), CEO of Cortex, discuss how to build and sustain a thriving talent ecosystem in St. Louis during the Data for Good conference Oct. 9 in Emerson Auditorium. (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./WashU)
Author Carmen Maria Machado reads at podium
In celebration of Banned Books Week, author Carmen Maria Machado reads from her acclaimed memoir, “In the Dream House,” Sept. 25 in Holmes Lounge. Following her reading, Machado discussed book bans and the banning of her own books with Melanie Micir, an associate professor of English in Arts & Sciences. (Photo: Rebecca Clark/WashU)
Audience members listen to speaker
Audience members listen during a book reading by author Carmen Maria Machado Sept. 25 in Holmes Lounge. Machado’s reading took place during Banned Books Week. (Photo: Rebecca Clark/WashU)
aurora borealis at Tyson Research Center
Michael J. Krawczynski and Hélène Craigg, both in Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, captured this image of the aurora borealis as visible under dark skies Oct. 10 from Tyson Research Center, WashU’s environmental field station. (Photo courtesy of Michael Krawczynski)

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