Who Knew WashU?
Question: The Sam Fox School is celebrating 20 years, but its components have been around much longer. The College of Art was the first professional, university-affiliated art school in the U.S. When was it founded?
Answer: B) 1879. The Kemper Art Museum was founded in 1881, and the College of Architecture was established in 1910.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Matthew Schooley, who works in University Advancement and will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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Helina Woldekiros
Helina Woldekiros was the first female Ethiopian archaeologist to earn a doctoral degree at an American institution. Now an associate professor of archaeology in WashU Arts & Sciences, she is exploring the culture of the kingdom that gave the world coffee.
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Evidence from a small island in Indonesia points to the successful elimination of a parasitic worm that causes a devastating tropical disease.
