Author: Diane Toroian Keaggy

Washington University in St. Louis is welcoming the first round of faculty members identified through its race and ethnicity cluster hire initiative, a multiyear effort to build a world-class and interdisciplinary research program on race.

Three graduates document their final days as Washington University students.

Jill Edwards, who works in the Office of the Provost, is this year’s winner of the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. Staff Day for the Danforth Campus is canceled this year, but see staff milestones and other activities online.

Washington University in St. Louis Libraries has acquired the collection of Charles Johnson, the acclaimed author, cartoonist and essayist who won the 1990 National Book Award for his novel “Middle Passage.”

Washington University has admitted 47 rising high school sophomores to its innovative College Prep Program, a multiyear initiative that prepares high-achieving students with limited financial resources for college.

Nearly 1,400 members of the Class of 2020 returned to the Washington University campus on Sunday, May 30, to celebrate an in-person Commencement on Francis Olympic Field.

In commemoration of the one-year anniversary May 25 of the killing of George Floyd, the leaders of Washington University’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion planted Black Lives Matter flags on the Brookings Hall lawn.

In memory of George Floyd, the leaders of the Washington University in St. Louis Center for Diversity and Inclusion will plant Black Lives Matter flags on the lawn east of Brookings Hall on the Danforth Campus, beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 25.

Washington University celebrated its160th Commencement not once, but eight times on May 20 and May 21. The Record kept a diary of the days’ sights and stories, including three alumni who competed on Francis Field and returned there to watch their children graduate; five Olin student-athletes on their way to NCAA Division III baseball championships; and one very elated chancellor thrilled to lead his first in-person Commencement.

Senior Class President Michelle Wang delivered remarks to the Class of 2021 at Commencement.