Author: Leslie Gibson McCarthy

In the “Engineering Ethics and Sustainability” taught by Sandra Matteucci of the McKelvey School of Engineering, students explore the lessons to be learned from deadly ethics failures.

The Freedom Suits Memorial in downtown St. Louis honors enslaved men and women who sued for their freedom before the Civil War. Here’s how the WashU community contributed to the decades-long effort.

What started as a chance to try something new with her mom led Tiffany Yao, BFA ’19, into another competition that was far less conventional. Here, in her own words, is how she became a beauty queen.

Former WashU basketball player David Fatoki, BSBA ’15, is working his way up the administrative ladder of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors.

Brenda Barnicki, BSChE ’86, parlayed a candy-making hobby and job loss into a nonprofit for children’s charities.

Leah Nixon, BFA ’11, survived a construction accident that severed her spinal cord. Illustrating the children’s book “Best Day Ever,” became part of her recovery.

David Rogier earned a degree in political science in 2005, and has never let himself — or us — stop learning. In 2015, he created MasterClass as an online school for the rest of our lives.

How Jason Green, AB ’03, went from White House counsel to documentary filmmaker, and why he’s just begun to tell the stories we need to hear in the way we need to hear them.

In partnership with dozens of authors around the globe, three Brown School faculty members edited a new, groundbreaking book illuminating child behavioral health in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In a new law clinic, students gain experience with litigation, parole work, clemency cases and more as they help those wrongfully convicted of crimes.