Author: Liam Otten

St. Louis funk/soul/jazz collective The Liberation Organ Trio will launch Washington University’s 2016 Jazz in July series with a free performance Thursday, July 7.

The paintings of Adam Turl climb the walls like a rocket hitting exit velocity – an image slyly reinforced by the telescope installed at their base. Collectively titled “Red Mars,” the group of 10 canvases is currently on view in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum as part of the Sam Fox School’s annual MFA Thesis show.

James P. Anno, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences, is one of 18 emerging professionals to win a prestigious summer internship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

It began as an experiment. Three decades later, the University City Public Art Series is the nation’s longest-running public art collaboration between a university and a local municipality.

Claire Ross, a graduate student in Germanic Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to conduct dissertation research.

Amanda Scott, a doctoral candidate in history in Arts & Sciences, is one of 20 winners of the 2016 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The $25,000 award is among the nation’s most prestigious for doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences, with a specific emphasis on questions concerning ethical and religious values.

With a first-place travel award of $50,000, the biennial James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture is among the largest in the nation for emerging architects. The 2016 fellowship, titled “Adaptation,” centers on how flexibility and adaptive response might be better incorporated into the design process.

Paul Michael Lützeler, the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, has received the Award for International Exchange from the American Alumni Association of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Washington University in St. Louis will welcome three of the brightest stars in the classical firmament — Jonathan Biss, Yefim Bronfman and Nathan Gunn — to the 560 Music Center as part of its new Great Artist Series.

Robert E. Morrell, a professor emeritus who taught Japanese literature and Buddhism at Washington University in St. Louis for 34 years, died May 11, 2016, in St. Louis after a brief illness. He was 86.