Arts & Sciences

The Washington University Dance Collective, the resident dance company of the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, will present “Transcendence,” an evening of new and original choreography, April 4 and 5 in Edison Theatre.

Refugees resettled in the U.S. often define success in ways that go far beyond economic self-sufficiency, according to a new study co-authored by WashU researchers. The study challenges long-held assumptions about what makes resettlement successful in the U.S.

Composer and instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, celebrated for her “rippling blend of musical genres” (San Francisco Classical Voice), will join her ensemble, the Blood Moon Orchestra, for a recital Sunday, April 6. The performance will conclude WashU’s 2025 Great Artists Series.

New calculations by Arts & Sciences researchers suggest surprising geology beneath Venus’ surface.

Lúcia Lohmann and Toby Pennington will have joint appointments with both research institutions.

Seven WashU faculty members are among the 471 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis will host six performances by internationally renowned performers as part of the 2026 Great Artists Series.

Physicists in Arts & Sciences have created a new phase of matter in the center of a diamond. They created a new form of time crystal called a discrete-time quasicrystal. Such states could be useful for high-precision sensing and advanced signal processing.

A multidisciplinary team led by chemist Timothy Wencewicz in Arts & Sciences repurposed an antimalarial drug in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

“¿Te puedo contar algo?”, an evening-length concert featuring new and original works by MFA candidates Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall and Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón in Arts & Sciences, will explore the nature, power and necessity of grief March 21 and 22 in WashU’s Edison Theatre.