Washington Magazine

Just east of downtown St. Louis, university faculty, students and alumni explore Cahokia Mounds — the remains of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian native civilization north of Mexico and now a World Heritage Site.

Faculty, students and alumni build on Eero Saarinen’s idea of a unified waterfront — one where the Gateway Arch joins with the rest of the city, the river and surrounding areas.

After many years, alumni novelists Adam Ross and John Brandon find their voices, and much-awaited recognition.

Each year, Washington University’s Travel Program offers alumni and friends exceptional travel and learning experiences to some of the most culturally rich locations around the globe.

The Washington University Club program offered New York alumni and friends the opportunity to learn from WUSTL’s leading ancient Egyptian scholar, Professor Sarantis Symeonoglou.

Priya Mallika Sury, AB ’10, an anthropology and Spanish double major, both in Arts & Sciences, was selected a 2010 Rhodes Scholar.

Washington University students create new, innovative ways to serve others, both near and far. Through the Social Change Grants program, the university invests in these young social entrepreneurs, helping them fulfill the promise of bringing change to the world.

Professor Gaylyn Studlar reveals new ways to understand Hollywood as an industry, as well as its effects on our perceptions and culture.

In Absence of Closure, Gustav Schonfeld, MD, the Samuel E. Schechter Professor of Medicine, recounts an amazing life journey, from a happy childhood in Munkacs, to the horrors of Auschwitz, to a long-term career at the university.

Architecture and business alumna Leigh Stringer works on and writes about sustainable strategies for the workplace. Although the greening of work and life is slow, it’s the “right thing to do,” she says.