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Pledge drive

Shortly after Commencment, Chancellor Andrew Martin spent some time with Julia Blanchard, AB ’24, talking about what the WashU Pledge meant for her, her WashU Pledge cohort — and for a whole new generation of WashU students.

Literature

Winner’s circle

A new acclaimed novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’07, explores class mobility, moral choices and love in the time of COVID.

Humanities & Society

‘An amazing story’

Gerald Early, who served as a curatorial consultant for a new exhibit on Black baseball at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, discusses The Souls of the Game.

Campus & Community

Redefining the alumni experience

Board of Trustees member Valerie Davisson in Holmes Lounge. (Photo Joe Angeles/Washington University)

As incoming chair of the Alumni Board of Governors, Valerie Davisson aims to inspire WashU graduates to engage with and support their alma mater — and its students.

Campus & Community

A career in counterintelligence

A WashU education helped prepare John W. Davis, AB ’74, for assignments in an international world of espionage.

Performing Arts

‘You think, so you can dance’

In “The Neuroscience of Movement,” dancer and research scientist Elinor Harrison introduces students to the complex neural processes that allow us to coordinate thought, action and perception.

Campus & Community

The path of a community organizer

Samantha Searls (far right) serves as a program director for Ignite Peace, an education and advocacy organization in Cincinnati. (Courtesy photo)

Experiences with St. Louis organizations led alumna Samantha Searls to a career in advocating for immigrants.

Business & Entrepreneurship

The motherhood entrepreneurs

WashU alumnae are founding companies with moms in mind, offering solutions for the raw, unfiltered realities of pregnancy and infant care.

Humanities & Society

The continued need for DEI in the workplace

Through in-depth interviews with Black professionals like "Max," a doctor in emergency medicine, sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield explains how racism persists in hospitals, universities, nonprofits and other professional settings. (Photo: Sasun Bughdaryan/Unsplash)

Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield sheds light on the ways racism persists in professional settings and offers a path forward for employers.

Campus & Community

Leah Rae Czerniewski, biomedical engineering doctoral student, 34

Leah Rae Vandiver Czerniewski, a doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University died after a long illness Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She was 34.