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Engineering

Life and death decisions

Sandra Matteucci’s “Engineering Ethics and Sustainability” course uses movies to showcase ethical (or not) decision-making. (Illustration: Monica Duwel)
In the “Engineering Ethics and Sustainability” taught by Sandra Matteucci of the McKelvey School of Engineering, students explore the lessons to be learned from deadly ethics failures.
History & Education

Honoring the fight for freedom

The Freedom Suits Memorial in downtown St. Louis honors enslaved men and women who sued for their freedom before the Civil War. Here’s how the WashU community contributed to the decades-long effort.
Arts & Culture

‘Lest We Forget’ opens Oct. 20

Luigi Toscano tests a portrait installation in front of the Summers Welcome Center for his exhibition "Lest We Forget."
“Lest We Forget,” a public art installation by noted Italian-German photographer Luigi Toscano, will open Oct. 20 in WashU’s Ann and Andrew Tisch Park. The exhibition will feature nearly 100 contemporary, large-scale portraits of Holocaust survivors — including 12 survivors now living in St. Louis.
Awards & Notables

HomeGrownSTL wins Social Justice Innovation Award

Sean Joe
HomeGrown STL, a Brown School program aimed at improving community-level capacity to reduce inequality in Black adolescents’ healthy transition to adulthood, has won an inaugural Social Justice Innovation Award from financial firm Morgan Stanley and the nonprofit Centri Tech Foundation.
Psychology

COVID messaging: caring or condescending?

illustration of a younger person delivering groceries to an older person, both wearing face masks
Research from the lab of Brian Carpenter, in Arts & Sciences, suggests older adults understood that sometimes-unflattering COVID-19 messaging came from a place of caring and compassion.