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Friday, March 10

Credit: Katherine Simone Reynolds
10 Mar

In 2021 the Washington University Libraries acquired the literary papers of Aaron Coleman. Coleman, a poet and translator, received his Master of Fine Arts...

2023 Open Education Week: WashU Student Advocacy for Access to Affordable Textbooks
10 Mar

Open Education Week raises awareness and highlights innovative open education successes worldwide every year. Open Education Week allows practitioners,...

50 Years of Title IX
10 Mar

In June 1972, Congress passed Title IX, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any federal government-funded school or other educational programs. The 50...

Beauty in Enormous Bleakness: The Design Legacy of the Interned Generation of Japanese Americans
10 Mar

"The Beauty in Enormous Bleakness: The Design Legacy of the Interned Generation of Japanese Americans" explores architecture’s relationship to issues of...

Chakaia Booker: 'Shaved Portions'
10 Mar

Chakaia Booker is renowned for her artistic practice that pushes the limits of abstraction through the use of her signature material—discarded rubber tires...

Inherent Vice: Preserving Vulnerable Collections
10 Mar

Libraries and archives are stewards to immense collections threatened by building leaks, pest infestations, and their own inherent vices. The Inherent Vice...

School of Medicine Composting Pilot Program
10 Mar

Was your New Year's resolution to be more sustainable? Here's an easy way to stick to it! WashU School of Medicine will be piloting a composting program at...

Shakespeare in Hand
10 Mar

Shakespeare’s words have become so famous that there is a quote for just about every circumstance or occasion. Though many miniature books feature an entire...

Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies, 1685
10 Mar

"The Play’s the Thing" exhibition celebrates the 400-year anniversary of the first folio—the first time William Shakespeare’s collected works were printed....

Women in Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine
10 Mar

Back by popular demand, this exhibit, in collaboration with the Academic Women's Network, features 22 women from the Washington University School of Medicine...

Space Sciences/Astrophysics Seminar on Navigating the Transition from Astrophysics to Data Science
10 Mar

Academia or industry? The question that plagues every graduate student and postdoc. You hear statistics thrown out about how few jobs there are in academia....

Friday, March 10 | 9:00 AM
African Modernism in America
10 Mar

Organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Fisk University Galleries, African Modernism in America is the first major traveling exhibition to...

Embracing Change: Tackling In-the-Wild Shifts in Machine Learning
10 Mar

Huaxiu Yao Postdoctoral Scholar Computer Science Department Standford University The real-world deployment of machine learning algorithms often poses...

Friday, March 10 | 11:00 AM
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Future Fridays - The Transdisciplinary Futures Initiative: Improving Data Integration Techniques
10 Mar

The Graduate Center is partnering with the Arts & Sciences Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures initiative to host informal lunches where graduate...

Future Fridays - The Transdisciplinary Futures Initiative: The Storytelling Lab: Bridging Science, Technology and Creativity
10 Mar

The Graduate Center is partnering with the Arts & Sciences Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures initiative to host informal lunches where graduate...

Fox Fridays: Processing (p5.js) Color & Code
10 Mar

This workshop would serve as an introduction to the Processing p5.js JavaScript library for creative coding platform. For students in my architecture design...

Friday, March 10 | 1:00 PM
Friday Archaeology:  Effects of Food Preparation and Labor Organizations on Domesticated Millet in Ancient China (8000-1000 B.P.)
10 Mar

This week, Yufeng Sun will be presenting his research in a talk titled "Effects of Food Preparation and Labor Organizations on Domesticated Millet in Ancient...

Friday, March 10 | 4:00 PM
Member and WashU Preview: 'African Modernism in America'
10 Mar

Kemper Art Museum members and WashU faculty, staff, and students are invited to be among the first to view African Modernism in America, the first major...

Latin American Film Festival @ WashU
10 Mar

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is proud to present the Latin American Film Festival @ WashU. This spring, we will be screening five...

Panel Discussion: Collecting and Exhibiting Modern African Art
10 Mar

As part of the opening festivities for African Modernism in America, exhibition co-curators Perrin Lathrop, assistant curator of African art at the Princeton...

Public Opening: 'African Modernism in America'
10 Mar

Following the panel discussion on collecting and exhibiting modern African art in Steinberg Auditorium, join us to celebrate the opening of African Modernism...

Friday, March 10