Fox Fridays awarded grant
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts has received a two-year $100,000 grant from the Brabson Library and Education Foundation to support Fox Fridays, the school’s series of free interdisciplinary workshops.
Phillips wins 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize
Poets & Writers has awarded the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize to Carl Phillips, professor of English in Arts & Sciences.
University Libraries acquires papers of acclaimed author Charles Johnson
Washington University in St. Louis Libraries has acquired the collection of Charles Johnson, the acclaimed author, cartoonist and essayist who won the 1990 National Book Award for his novel “Middle Passage.”
Another honor for university’s sustainable building practice
The U.S. Green Building Council awarded Washington University a 2021 Leadership Award for excellence in its West North Central Region.
Ottoman Eurasia in Early Modern German Literature
Cultural Translations (Francisci, Happel, Speer)
Europe and the Ottoman Empire through three 17th-century writers Even a casual perusal of seventeenth-century European print production makes clear that the Turk was on everyone’s mind. Europe’s confrontation of and interaction with the Ottoman Empire in the face of what appeared to be a relentless Ottoman expansion spurred news delivery and literary production in […]
Mike Delivers
The Big Mix-Up
Mike is a hedgehog living in the town of Happy Rivers. He delivers items all over town, but sometimes gets mixed up! Early readers will be delighted by the funny results of Mike’s mistakes that he is always sure to fix.
No One You Know
Strangers and the Stories We Tell
During a lonely and difficult year, author Jason Schwartzman began allowing regular, everyday interactions with strangers to escalate. In this book, Schwartzman compiles dozens of these encounters and deftly reveals the kinship he finds there, ultimately reconsidering what it means to know someone.
French Connexions hosts ‘Video Games in Translation’
The French Connexions Cultural Center at Washington University in St. Louis will host a virtual symposium on “Video Games in Translation” on Saturday, May 22.
Libraries’ Neureuther essay contest winners named
University Libraries has selected the winners of the 2021 Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition. It offers first and second prizes to undergraduate students and graduate students who write short essays about their personal book collections.
Clothes, confidence and the stubbornness of joy
Fashion design majors from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will present their work at 4 p.m. May 15 as part of the 92nd Annual Fashion Design Show. Filled with sleek silhouettes, saturated palettes and crazy-quilt textures, the show — titled “The Collective” — is a full-throated rejection of pandemic-era dourness.
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