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Art & Design

Collaborative by design

Stephanie Beamer, Crystal Ellis and Hillary Petrie, all 2006 architecture graduates, became friends and collaborators while students at Washington University. Now, they run the award-winning furniture design company Egg Collective in New York City.
Popular Culture

The game of life

When Sam Coster, AB ’12, was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer at age 23, he knew his life had to change. A game developer who made irreverent endless runners for mobile, Coster and his brothers, who run the game development studio Butterscotch Shenanigans, decided to create their most imaginative and ambitious game to date, Crashlands.
Mental Health

Helping women escape sex trafficking

As a survivor of sex trafficking, Katie Rhoades, MSW ’11, is passionate about helping women in the commercial sex industry. After graduating from the Brown School, she founded Healing Action, a nonprofit that helps women move on from their trauma.

The misunderstood social safety net

Mark Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare in the Brown School
Few topics are more misunderstood than the U.S. social safety net. As Congress considers making significant changes and cuts to these programs during the next few months, it is time to splash a dose of hard reality onto this subject.

WashU alumna named Schwarzman Scholar

Lingyu Zhou photo
Lingyu Zhou, a Washington University in St. Louis School of Law alumna, has been awarded a highly selective 2019 Schwarzman Scholarship for graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing. A student and another alum were semifinalists.
Engineering

Herby goes to China

Five students from WashU’s school of Engineering & Applied Science put their technical chops to the test in China this summer when they competed in the Silk Road Robotics competition.
Students

WashU Musical Revue performs in China

Last May, group of WashU students performed concerts in Beijing and Shanghai with Provost Holden Thorp, bringing with them a message of togetherness and community.