Campus & Community

The School of Law’s Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series spring lineup kicks off Feb. 4 with Gregory Magarian giving the lecture “The First Amendment and the Mess We’re In: From the Streets to the Cloud.”

The university Society of Professors Emeriti will hold its regular monthly meeting via Zoom at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8. Piroska Kopar, MD, of the Washington University School of Medicine, will discuss medical ethics in surgery.

The Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative announces a new funding opportunity. Senior lecturers, professors of the practice, tenure-track and tenured faculty can apply for grants of up to $20,000 in support of collaborative research, field institutes and community engagement on urban segregation, broadly conceived. The deadline is Feb. 17.

Rebecca Wanzo, chair and professor of women, gender and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences, has won the Katherine Singer Kovács awards for outstanding scholarship in cinema and media studies from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses

This semester, the Whittemore House is offering curbside lunch options from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays for both members and nonmembers.

James M. DuBois, the Steven J. Bander Professor of Medical Ethics and Professionalism, and Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD, the Mabel Dorn Reeder Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have been named Hastings Center Fellows. The Hastings Center addresses social and ethical issues in health care, science and technology.

The Danforth Campus Parking and Transportation team shares updates for the spring semester, on topics such as permits, shuttle service and U-Pass registration, in its January newsletter.  

Question: The Harvey Media Center in the Danforth University Center is home to a number of student media groups. How many official student media groups, both print and electronic, does Washington University have?

The Washington University community is invited to an online discussion Monday, Feb, 1, exploring a new proposal aimed at creating more jobs in the St. Louis region during the coming decade.