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Lee Epstein, the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor

Kimberly Norwood, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law

David Konig, Emeritus Professor of Law and History

A new exhibition at Olin Library focuses on Chiura Obata, hailed as one of the great American landscape painters of the last century. The exhibition highlights the artist’s paintings from 1942, when President Roosevelt’s executive order forced more than 120,0000 West Coast Japanese Americans into internment camps. The exhibit is on display until Sept. 4.

Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law

Geoff Ward, professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the WashU & Slavery Project, explores the history of Juneteenth and offers resources to learn more about the commemoration and to take part in activities on campus and across the St. Louis region.

Randall J. Bateman, the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology

Sarah Figgatt, graduate student at the Brown School, and Phillip Marotta, assistant professor at the Brown School, write an op-ed about the transformational impact of the Prison Education Project at Washington University. The program provides incarcerated students with a second chance at pursuing a college education.

Google’s “sentient” chatbot shows us where we’re headed—and it’s not good, writes Ian Bogost of Film & Media Studies.

Emma Lembke, rising sophomore