Campus & Community

The eyes of the world will be on this very stage beginning at 8 p.m. (CDT) tonight. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look.

This Sunday, Oct. 9, Washington University will host the second presidential debate. A supporting cast of more than 4,500 journalists, student volunteers, local police officers, vendors, student audience members, campaign staff and surrogates, and university employees also will play important roles in this historic event.

JD Long, a project director with St. Louis-based Alberici Construction, will join Washington University Oct. 10 as associate vice chancellor for facilities planning & management, Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration has announced.

Images in and around the Washington University campuses.

Hundreds celebrated the start of debate week at Washington University in St. Louis Oct. 1 with the lighting of Brookings Hall.

Washington University in St. Louis’ Institute for Public Health recently hosted a student Public Health Challenge, in partnership with the Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship. During the event, teams of students developed social and entrepreneurial concepts designed to reduce gun violence in St. Louis.

Political journalist Ezra Klein explains that it’s imperative for American voters to focus less on the candidates and more on the structure of our democracy.

Even though Washington University in St. Louis has been preparing for the Oct. 9 Presidential Debate since last September, signs of the event began appearing on campus this August. Take a look at some of the preparation that has been going on around campus.

The KIPP College Partnership will connect Washington University to bright, young minds across the country, create a more diverse student body and deepen ties with KIPP St. Louis, which educates 1,200 students at its two elementary and two middle schools. Washington University is KIPP St. Louis’ public charter school sponsor.

Andie Berry, whose play “Son of Soil” will receive a staged reading Oct. 1 as part of the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival, discusses her work.