Who Knew WashU?
Question: Which Pulitzer Prize-winning poet used a hand-drawn Ouija board, now in WashU’s collection, when writing his 90-page poem “The Book of Ephraim”?
Answer: B) James Merrill. There’s a current exhibit on view at Olin Library, “James Merrill’s Poetic Places,” highlighting locations important to his literary legacy. Read more about his personal artifacts.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Laura Kipper, a staff member at WashU Medicine, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” prize!
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Barch wins major national psychology prize
WashU psychology researcher Deanna Barch has won the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious honors in psychology.
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Videos
Komal Shah on ‘Making Their Mark’
Influential collector Komal Shah discusses “Making Their Mark.” Currently on view at WashU’s Kemper Art Museum, the exhibition places work by renowned figures such as Howardena Pindell, Joan Mitchell and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in dialogue with contemporary practitioners such as Katharina Grosse, Lorna Simpson, Sarah Sze and Mary Weatherford.
