Arts & Culture

Three new plays by Chinonso Anyanwu, Anna Schwartz and Frauke Thielecke will receive world premiere staged readings Sept. 19 and 20 as part of the 2026 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.

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.