Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Can technology be at once ubiquitous and invisible? Artist Trevor Paglen, who will speak on campus Feb. 1, deploys photography, sculpture, engineering and investigative journalism to document drones, satellites, fiber-optic cables and other “hidden” systems.

Six members of the Washington University in St. Louis faculty have been honored with 2015 Emerson Electric Co. “Excellence in Teaching” awards.

Five Washington University in St. Louis faculty have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grants to study abroad during the 2015-16 academic year. They are Petra Levin, PhD (right), Timothy Parsons, PhD; and Guillermo Rosas, PhD, all in Arts & Sciences; Jesse Vogler of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts; and Edythe E. Weeks, JD, PhD, of University College in Arts & Sciences.

In 1915, at age 40, Winston Churchill was ousted as First Lord of the Admiralty during Britain’s disastrous Gallipoli campaign. It was a low point for the future prime minister, but recovery began in the most unlikely of places: in the garden, with a box of paints.

St. Louis-based design firm PGAV Destinations has pledged $125,000 and the volunteer time of its leading designers to support The Alberti Program at Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts for the next five years.

The university unveils plans to enhance the east end of the Danforth Campus.

Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, and poet Travis Mossotti, a grant analyst in the university’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, are among 10 recipients of the Regional Arts Commission’s 2015 Artist Fellowships.

Rod Barnett, professor and chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture in the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses St. Louis, emergence theory and the role of the landscape architect today.

Members of the St. Louis Symphony will join musicians from the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis for “Music of the Great War” Nov. 16 in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

What is gentrification, and can urban renewal be accomplished responsibly and ethically? Washington University in St. Louis Executive Vice Chancellor ​Henry S. Webber and Molly Metzger, PhD, of the Brown School, will explore these issues at the St. Louis Up Close event “Gentrification – Fact or Fiction; Truth or Myth.” Sponsored by the Gephardt Institute, the event takes place at 4 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Danforth University Center.