Cinema St. Louis highlights WashU student filmmakers
Seven films by WashU students will be featured in the 2024 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. Organized by Cinema St. Louis, the festival highlights work written, directed, edited and/or produced by St. Louis natives and by those with strong local ties.
A professor’s past life: Richard Chapman
In this video profile, produced by sophomore Sanchali Pothuru, veteran Hollywood producer Richard Chapman, now a senior lecturer in film and media studies in Arts & Sciences, discusses his career, how he broke into the business and the interplay of luck and hard work.
‘Reframing the 19th Century’
In “Reframing the 19th Century,” the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum places works from its permanent collection alongside six long-term loans from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to highlight diverse themes and broaden our understanding of 19th-century art.
Minnis wins Paley Center internship
Kannon Minnis, a rising junior in Arts & Sciences, has won a prestigious Peter Roth Internship from the Paley Center for Media in New York.
The Winner
A novel
The latest novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’06, The Winner is a dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite.
Scram
Society of Creatures Real and Magical
In the hopes of learning more about the local cryptids, three friends, Jenny, Emiko and Brian, start the Society of Creatures Real and Magical — S.C.R.A.M. Their first order of business? To meet a troll!
Winner’s circle
A new acclaimed novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’07, explores class mobility, moral choices and love in the time of COVID.
‘You think, so you can dance’
In “The Neuroscience of Movement,” dancer and research scientist Elinor Harrison introduces students to the complex neural processes that allow us to coordinate thought, action and perception.
Adare Brown wins Steedman Fellowship in Architecture
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based architect Adare Brown has been selected as winner of the 2023-24 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture. Established in 1926, the biannual $75,000 prize, which supports research through international travel, is among the largest such fellowships in the United States.
The next generation of design
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, in collaboration with the McKelvey School of Engineering, will launch a new Master of Design for Human-Computer Interaction and Emerging Technology in fall 2025. Housed in Weil Hall, it will be the first STEM-designated graduate program situated within the Sam Fox School’s College of Art.
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