Arts & Culture

Ronald Krieger, AB ’59, shares a vivid memory of meeting composer Aaron Copland at WashU in 1958.

One podcast episode at time, Margaret Duncan, MD ’21, is striking a balance between creative pursuits and her medical practice.

The journalists of WashU’s ”Student Life” take campus lessons into careers in national news.

“Homeschooled,” by Stefan Merrill Block, AB ’04, sheds a heartrending light on his educational upbringing.

WashU was a window to the world in the acclaimed career of contemporary painter John Moore.

Scott Mitchell harnesses the power of robotic machines to create wow-worthy structures.

Launched in 2007, WashU’s Alberti Program offers young people a hands-on introduction to architecture, a field rarely included in the K-12 curriculum. Students ask the same questions, use the same tools and build the same models as real-life architects.

A new WashU study shows how scientists can use ancient DNA to answer historical questions beyond what artifacts alone can reveal.

Naomi Kim-Yu, a doctoral candidate in English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American culture studies, both in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

“Growing Deep Roots,” a one-person show by artist Carolina Caycedo, will open Sept. 9 at the WashU Kemper Art Museum. In this Q&A, Caycedo discusses her work, her interest in migration, just energy transitions and the tenacity of repair.