Sam Fox School faculty installation featured at 2025 Exhibit Columbus
“Inside Out,” an exhibition by Sam Fox School faculty Chandler Ahrens, Constance Vale and Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, is featured in the 2025 Exhibit Columbus “Yes And” exhibition in Indiana.
Betha Whitlow
As director of the Digital Art History Lab, Betha Whitlow provides work experiences to students that are both fruitful and fairly compensated. She wants the same for her WashU colleagues. On the Danforth Staff Council, she successfully advocated for parental leave.
Loewenstein wins NSF digital infrastructure grant
Joe Loewenstein, a professor of English and director of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, all in Arts & Sciences, will serve as co-principal investigator for a $798,000 Human Networks and Data Science grant from the National Science Foundation.
The Acid Queen
The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
The definitive portrait of Rosemary Woodruff Leary. Susannah Cahalan, AB ’07, reclaims her narrative and voice from those who dismissed her. Page-turning, revelatory, and utterly compelling, the book shines an overdue spotlight on a pioneering psychedelic seeker.
The Odds
Poems
Suzanne Cleary’s The Odds is about chance: crazy luck, bad luck, about the luck of the draw, and what we make of that draw. Through arresting imagery and surprising turns, these narrative and contemplative poems examine the work of holding a job, of making art, of making sense of our historical moment. There is mortality […]
WashU and Cinema St. Louis launch ‘Art House Cinema’ series
Nearly a dozen classic international films will be screened at the Hi-Pointe Theatre this fall. The series, “Art House Cinema, 1945-2000,” is inspired by Todd Decker’s survey course “Art House Movie Music.”
Arc of the Universe
A novel
How do you design a system of government from scratch when you’ve lost faith in government itself? Carrie Davenport, a renowned constitutional law professor, has the career opportunity of a lifetime. Project Mars, the brainchild of a billionaire tech tycoon, has ambitious plans to establish the first human settlement on Mars. And Project Mars selected […]
Kasimu Taylor Quartet to launch WashU Jazz Series Sept. 8
Veteran St. Louis trumpeter Kasimu Taylor will launch the fall WashU Jazz Series with a performance Sept. 8 at the 560 Music Center’s Pillsbury Theatre.
Faith, Family and Flag
Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America
Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain mecca of wholesome entertainment, has been home to countless stage shows espousing patriotism and Christianity, welcoming over ten million visitors a year. Some consider it “God’s Country” and others “as close to Hell as anything on Earth.” For Joanna Dee Das, Branson is a political, religious, and cultural harbinger of a certain enduring dream of what America is.
Four student films debut at St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
Four short films by WashU students premiered as part of the 25th Annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.
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