Arts & Sciences

Photo by Joe AngelesFilm director Johnnie To, best known for cops-and-gangsters action movies, discusses his work with Film & Media Studies students.

A University trustee from 1975-1985, he was also credited with building Southwestern Bell into a telecommunications empire.

The Program in Social Thought & Analysis is sponsoring a conference titled “Inequalities in Schools & Neighborhoods: St. Louis and Beyond.”

St. Louis Hillel at Washington University will host a symposium titled “Gateways to Social Justice” from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 21 in Brown Hall, Room 100, and Holmes Lounge. The symposium is a component of the Hillel’s Social Justice Institute. The opening keynote addresses will be presented in Brown Hall, Room 100, by Mark Pelavin, […]

The Goethe Award is an official German award of merit; it is the highest medal a foreigner can receive for work done in the field of cultural exchange.

His book “exemplifies the best of contemporary work in the field of political psychology,” the awards committee said.

The emeritus trustee, also a former professor and provost, died March 4 at age 79.

Much of her spare time was spent trying to help people struggling with just about every possible problem.

Selections from the 1902 stage musical The Wizard of Oz by St. Louis native Paul Tietjens will highlight a performance of 19th- and early 20th-century popular song at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Gallery of Art. The concert, part of the Music at the Gallery of Art series, will feature six songs by Tietjens, […]

Photo by Kevin LowderCarlos Fittante leads a recent master class; his work will be reprised Dec. 5-7 as part of the Washington University Dance Theatre concert.