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August 2024

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Building trust and community

Building trust and community

One of WashU’s fundamental missions is to help students develop into the global leaders of tomorrow, by cultivating habits of lifelong learning and critical and ethical thinking.

Preparing leaders

Preparing leaders

WashU prepares its students to become critical thinkers and inspiring leaders, promoting effective listening and respectful engagement, which are critical to navigating difficult conversations.


Coolidge shares message of self-acceptance at WashU Commencement

In a speech slyly funny, painfully raw and delightfully circuitous, award-winning actor Jennifer Coolidge shared her own journey to radical self-love with the 3,400 graduates of the WashU Class of 2024.

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‘Mother’ lode

‘Mother’ lode

Katya Apekina’s “Mother Doll” takes on the spirit world, the Russian Revolution, a surprise pregnancy and personal upheaval — and it’s hilarious.

Faculty Books


Gray Areas

How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

Alumni Books


Red Reckoning

The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life

Alumni Community

Class Notes

Daun Lee

Daun Lee, AB ’20, was selected as a 2023 Fulbright-National Geographic Award recipient. The award allows recipients to undertake in-depth explorations of pressing global issues over the course of an academic year. Lee works toward equitable, holistic climate mitigation strategies. She will research the social impact of converting agricultural lands to solar farms on Jeju Island, South Korea, uncovering the cultural and heritage value disruptions that citrus farmers are facing due to the nation’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. Lee will share her findings through a journal article and short-form documentary film.

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