Who Knew WashU?
Question: Which influential text owned by Thomas Jefferson affected the founders’ views on religious liberty, according to the WashU course “1776, Then and Now”?
Answer: D) The Quran. The course included presentations by faculty from WashU and elsewhere. All are available online through the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Gerard Ochs, a staff member at WashU Libraries, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” prize!
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Azama elected to athletic administrators board
Anthony J. Azama, associate vice chancellor for student success and the John M. Schael Director of Athletics at WashU, has been elected to serve as third vice president of the National Association of Division III Athletics Administrators.
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