Campus & Community

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Washington University is moving ahead with plans to centralize the undergraduate academic integrity process. The university community may offer feedback regarding proposed changes until Sept. 1.

Carl Phillips, a professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Phillips received the honor for his latest collection, “Then The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.” The prizes were announced May 8.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff until sunset Thursday, May 11, as a mark of respect for those killed in the shooting May 6 in Allen, Texas.

Abhinav Jha, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop approaches for list-mode imaging that improve information collection.

The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University to recognize outstanding scholarly achievement, recently inducted four doctoral candidates from Washington University.

Richard D. Brasington Jr., MD, a highly regarded professor emeritus of medicine and former director of the rheumatology fellowship training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, drowned April 30, 2023, while fishing in the North Fork River in Ozark, Mo. He was 71.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts celebrated seven honorees April 20 as part of the school’s 2023 Awards for Distinction ceremony.

In her final video, WashU graduating senior Amanda Sherman asks Chancellor Andrew D. Martin what advice he has for the Class of 2023 and why we wear funny hats at graduation.

As Washington University in St. Louis prepares for its 162nd Commencement, look back at the wise words shared in past years by some of America’s most powerful and inspiring voices.