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Art & Design

Sam Fox School announces 2021 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards

Cartoonist Lauren Weinstein and multimedia artist Paula Wilson have won the 2021 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards. Presented by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, the awards are open to alumni of the school’s Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts programs. Each winner receives $25,000 to advance their studio practice.
Business & Entrepreneurship

Will my startup idea work?

Man smiling in front of a whiteboard holding a black object Professor Doug Villhard
My office hours fill up weeks in advance with students (who are not even in my classes) waiting to ask me one question: “Doug, will my startup idea work?” My short answer is, “Who cares what I think? What do your target customers think?”   And most often the student’s answer is, “Well, I haven’t shown […]
Arts & Culture

Now playing: Propaganda at the movies

As China prepares for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party, thousands of theaters have been instructed to screen at least two propaganda films each week. But political jargon and ideological mandates may not sit well with 21st-century moviegoers, argues Zhao Ma, associate professor of modern Chinese history and culture in Arts & Sciences.
Students

4.12.21

COVID Mysteries
Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.
Awards & Notables

Gordon receives Kober Medal

Jeffrey Gordon, MD, has received the 2021 Kober Medal, one of the highest awards in academic medicine. Given by the Association of American Physicians, the honor recognizes Gordon’s extraordinary contributions to the field of gut microbiome research.
Climate & Environment

Watershed moments

Derek Hoeferlin, chair of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, leads students on a canoe trip along the Mississippi River, near the Chain of Rocks Bridge north of downtown St. Louis. The outing was part of Hoeferlin’s fall 2020 studio “Field Work 2.0,” which combined virtual and on-the-ground methods of documenting how various communities intersect with surrounding territories, watersheds and infrastructure. (Photo: Danny Reise)
The effects of climate change cannot be handled piecemeal, argues Derek Hoeferlin. Managing 21st-century waterways will require coordination on a continental scale — and a foundational understanding of how water shapes our environment.