The View From Here 1.4.16

Images captured in and around the Washington University campuses

January 4, 2016

students roast marshmallows over a fire — Washington University in St. Louis students Tina Zudock (left) and Alicia Meng roast marshmallows over a fire Dec. 7, 2015. (Sid Hastings/Washington University)

Lightscapes art exhibition — Lightscapes art exhibition, held Dec. 4, 2015, at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

people answer questions from audience — Washington University in St. Louis administrators, faculty and staff gathered Dec. 8, 2015, at Hillman Hall for reports by participants in the university’s PLAN program. Stephanie Kurtzman (center), director of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, participates in a question-and-answer session after the Leading Together: Building an Alumni Civic Engagement Initiative presentation. (Sid Hastings/Washington University)

two men smile for a photo — Jim Conlon (right), women’s soccer coach at Washington University, was honored Dec. 16, 2015, with the Carl O. Bauer Award at the Missouri Athletic Club. Josh Whitman, the university’s athletics director, is at left. (Joe Angeles/Washington University)

woman speaking at podium — Carol Browner, former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change, was the keynote speaker for a Brookings Executive Education event, held in Washington, D.C., Dec. 2, 2015. (Courtesy photo)

students walk through a breakfast buffet — Students gathered Dec. 8, 2015, for the annual Moonlight Breakfast, a late-night meal intended to break up the intensity of reading days before finals at the end of the first semester. (Sid Hastings/Washington University)

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