Campus & Community

Shimon Attie, who has earned an international reputation for exploring themes of place, memory and communal trauma, will serve as the 2016-17 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow. The fellowship, which is jointly organized by the Saint Louis Art Museum and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, consists of two monthlong residencies, during which recipients lead studios in the Sam Fox School while preparing an exhibition for the museum’s Currents series.

International experts on flooding, drought, extreme heat, land change and more will gather for a symposium on climate change on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Charles B. Anderson, MD, a former professor and director of the Division of General Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died of congestive heart failure Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, at his home, surrounded by his daughters. He was 78.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Dance Marathon will take place Saturday, Nov. 12. The annual 12-hour dance party raises money for local children’s hospitals and features food, music, student performances and themed dance hours. Organizers also will remember Maggie Ryan, the 2015 executive director, who died in a car accident in May, two days after graduation.

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 7, several faculty members were appointed with tenure or promoted with tenure.

Experts from around the country will convene at the Brown School Nov. 11 for the Young, Gifted and @Risk conference — an event that explores how campus communities can support the mental health and emotional well-being of students of color.

More than 65 million people tuned in to the Oct. 9 debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Watching at home, it can be hard to appreciate the scale of the endeavor, but a group of students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, working behind the scenes, sought to document the energy and intimacy of life at ground level.

Images in and around the Washington University campuses.

Thousands of Washington University in St. Louis students are expected to vote Tuesday. To make the experience easy, and memorable, the university has established one central polling location for all students who live on campus and it will host events and an evening watch party at the Danforth University Center.