Arts & Sciences

A WashU-led team successfully launched the DR-TES mission Sept. 24 from NASA’s balloon launch facility in New Mexico. Physicists in Arts & Sciences are using this mission to test quantum X-ray and gamma-ray detectors in near-space conditions.

The Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging has received an 18-month $136,000 grant from the RRF Foundation for Aging to study how older adults understand and experience ageism.

Richard Harrod, a doctoral candidate in history in Arts & Sciences, has been named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2024-25. The award, granted by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Program, will allow him to research the history of education in the Sultanate of Oman.

The Europa Clipper mission is the first to specifically target Jupiter’s ocean moon for detailed science investigation. In this Q&A, WashU’s William B. McKinnon, a science team member, describes what’s at stake when it launches next month.

WashU playwrights Zach Berger and Frauke Thielecke will present world-premiere staged reading as part of the 2024 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.

St. Louis writer Marie Wenya Burns and WashU undergraduate student Alethea Franklin are the second annual recipients of the Heartland Journalism Fellowships.

Washington University in St. Louis faculty experts are available to discuss a variety of topics related to the election, politics and national and local issues.

Rebecca Messbarger, in Arts & Sciences, is among the organizers of a symposium on “The Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, the Americas and Australia (1700-1840),” which will take place at WashU and at Saint Louis University Sept. 20 and 21. Some other faculty also are speaking.

The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present “(Re)Discovering the Musical Legacy of Julia Perry,” a symposium and concert exploring the legacy of the late modernist composer, Sept. 27 and 28.

WashU earth scientists in Arts & Sciences are mapping Earth’s interior and analyzing lava rocks from a volcanic hotspot near the islands of Samoa.