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Advancement

George and Carol Bauer: Leading through service

George and Carol Bauer established the George and Carol Bauer Leaders Academy for the Danforth Scholars Program to help scholars, such as (from center, right) Jimmy Rao, Elise DeConinck and Mackenzie Liening, clarify their values as they prepare for careers.
Emeritus trustee George Bauer, BS ’53, MS ’59, and his wife, Carol Bauer, believe in the power of servant leadership. Here they talk about their exemplary service to Washington University and why they established the George and Carol Bauer Leaders Academy for the Danforth Scholars Program.
Students

Surviving a Syrian prison

Sam Goodwin traveled to all 193 United Nations sovereign countries from 2010 to 2019, but when he was detained at a Syrian checkpoint and put in prison, he had to dig deep within himself to keep going.
Literature

An unfinished ending

After a sudden move to the Midwest, author Sayed Kashua brings his series of novels that explored Arab-Israeli identity to an end.
Anthropology & Archaeology

’Til the cows come home

Shaggy cows
New research led by archaeologists at Washington University in St. Louis shows that meat and dairy played a more significant role in human diets in Bronze Age China than previously thought. The analysis also suggests that farmers and herders tended to sheep and goats differently than they did their cows.