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Campus & Community

WashU Spaces: Seigle Hall L004

Hyflex courses. Synchronous learning. PTZ cameras. The lingo of the COVID-19 era classroom is new to many students, but not to Tom Furby, director of classroom services at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Washington University in St. Louis. In the latest installation of WashU Spaces, Furby shows off the educational technology that will support students whether they are in the classroom or around the globe.
Science & Technology

Henriksen lands CAREER grant to chase electron effects

Erik Henriksen
The behavior of electrons determines the fundamental properties of any material, such as its ability to conduct electricity. Erik Henriksen, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, takes advantage of strange-but-true qualities of graphene to search for correlated motion of electrons.

Lester’s book on eating disorders wins Victor Turner Prize

Rebecca J. Lester, professor of sociocultural anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won a 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book, “Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America.”
Climate & Environment

Why are the humanities integral to the Climate Change Program at Washington University in St. Louis?

Writing in my bedroom office under a stay-at-home order, the coronavirus is reminding me and the world of our interconnectedness and our humanity. We as individuals and as communities—local, national and global—are asking ourselves: How are we adjusting to a new normal? How are we understanding each other and our needs, both individually and collectively?
Campus & Community

‘St. Louis and suffrage’

Golden Lane tableau
In Beyond the Ballot, the Missouri History Museum introduces us to some forgotten women of St. Louis whose pivotal work helped shape society and the suffragist movement.
Campus & Community

ISP launches middle school COVID-19 curriculum

The Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis has launched a comprehensive COVID-19 curriculum. The free unit can be adapted for both synchronous and asynchronous learning and helps middle school students understand the history of infectious disease, the nature of COVID-19, the power and limitations of modeling and the importance of scientific literacy.
History & Education

100 years after ratification

Circa 1919–1920, National Woman's Party (NWP) activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the NWP Ratification Flag. Stars represent another state's ratification of the 19th Amendment. (Courtesy of Library of Congress)
Four faculty members share their thoughts on the complicated history of the women’s suffrage movement, the ratification of the 19th Amendment, and their hopes for what we might do today to honor the anniversary.
Campus & Community

Of prison cells and suffrage

The Lucy Burns Museum opened in January 2020 paying tribute to the 72 women imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse for picketing for the right to vote in 1917. (Courtesy photo)
Alumna Laura Adams McKie helped build a museum that teaches visitors about the suffrage movement and the prison where women were sent for picketing for the right to vote.
Campus & Community

Engaging the unengaged

Enthusiastic about the roles and responsibilities of citizenship, young alumna Lindsay Gassman works to inspire our democracy’s youngest members and change historical trends in student voting.