Author: Diane Toroian Keaggy

Washington University has entered a partnership with Bridge Bread to provide bagels and other items to university eateries. The nonprofit bakery provides a paycheck and training to people who have experienced homelessness.

The student-run Thurtene Carnival has been canceled for a second year due to COVID-19. Instead, Thurtene, the junior honorary, will host a virtual art showcase and benefit. Proceeds will support Tent Mission STL. Artwork submissions are due April 16.

Provost Beverly Wendland has appointed a committee to identify candidates for the position of vice provost and university librarian at Washington University.

Washington University has joined 37 other universities and partner organizations to launch the Taskforce on Higher Education and Opportunity. The task force will study how to ensure graduates succeed in the post-pandemic economy, strengthen partnerships with local communities and reimagine higher education in a way that supports students of all backgrounds.

Now celebrating its 15th year, the African Film Festival will virtually present March 26-28 an array of award-winning shorts and full-length features from across Africa. All programming is free.

For the third straight year, Washington University has been recognized as a “Voter-Friendly Campus” by the Campus Vote Project and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

The Gateway Army ROTC Battalion at Washington University in St. Louis will receive the inaugural award of the Department of Defense Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and Educational Institution Partnership Excellence Award during a ceremony on the Washington University campus March 15.

WashU Spaces visits the mySci warehouse in University City. Its rows are stocked with baking soda, owl pellets, safety goggles, nylon stockings and more hands-on materials for the award-winning mySci K-8 science curriculum.

Helping first-generation and low-income students means looking beyond applications and really figuring out the need.

Not only do low-income and first-generation students at WashU have a plethora of resources available to them, they also have supportive top administrators who understand exactly what the students are dealing with, because they’re first-generation too.