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Thursday, March 23

Credit: Katherine Simone Reynolds
23 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
23 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
23 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
23 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'
23 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
23 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
23 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
23 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
23 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....

WU Cinema Presents: The Room
23 Mar

Bust out those plastic spoons! Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is coming to WU Cinema in all its football-throwing glory! A Midnight Movie Event! The Room Rated R ...

Thursday, March 23 | 12:00 AM
Women in Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine
23 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...

Washington University College Republicans
23 Mar

Join us for fun, pizza-filled discussions on current events each Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in DUC 232.

BME Seminar: Nanyin Zhang, PhD
23 Mar

Presenting on “From neuron to behavior: investigating brain network function using multi-modal approach” Nanyin Zhang, PhD, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd...

WUSM Farmers Market
23 Mar

The Office of Sustainability, Operations & Facilities Management Department, and Human Resources are excited to announce the return of The School of Medicine...

African Modernism in America
23 Mar

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

Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava
23 Mar

Torkwase Dyson’s artwork engages urgent issues regarding architecture, infrastructure, and the social and political impacts of the climate crisis—bringing...

Preventing Suicide Through Safety Planning
23 Mar

Social workers frequently engage with individuals who are at-risk of suicide regardless of setting or work. Understanding the ideation to action dimension of...

Thursday, March 23 | 12:30 PM
Virtual Event
TRIADS Speaker Series: Is it (computationally) hard to steal an election?
23 Mar

Join Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering from McKelvey School of Engineering. Lunch will be served. Abstract: The...

AFAS Featured Event: Black Feminist Activism & Politics in Brazil
23 Mar

Black Feminist Activism & Politics in Brazil: A Conversation & Documentary Screening co-sponsored by the Department of African & African American Studies,...

Thursday, March 23 | 2:00 PM
Aditya Raghunandan
23 Mar

Aditya Raghunandan, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Rochester, will present his seminar titled, "Tracking soft matter flows to improve...

Leveraging Isotope Tracers in Adult Zebrafish to Understand Alterations to Organismal Metabolism
23 Mar

List of committee members with Chair recognized: Richard A. Loomis, Chair Alexei V. Demchenko Meredith E. Jackrel Lilianna Solnica-Krezel Gary J. Patti,...

Evolution of Dogs and Dog Aggression; and Macroevolutionary Trends in the Evolution of Domestic Cats and Dogs
23 Mar

We will livestream the presentations on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. at the Living Earth Collaborative YouTube Channel

Thursday, March 23 | 4:00 PM
The Inaugural Stern Family Lecture with Joseph Sassoon
23 Mar

Joseph Sassoon will provide a public lecture on his latest work, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire." A spectacular...

Thursday, March 23 | 4:00 PM
Town Hall Meeting: Update on Strategic Planning Implementation: Undergraduate Education Initiatives
23 Mar

Faculty and staff are cordially invited to an Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan Town Hall Meeting. Leadership will provide updates on the Literacies for Life...

Thursday, March 23 | 4:00 PM
CDI Book Club Meeting
23 Mar

Join the Center for Diversity and Inclusion's Book Club! This month, we will be discussing "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality" by Jane Ward. Please note hard...

Thursday, March 23 | 5:00 PM
AGES Spring Formal
23 Mar

The Association for Graduate Engineering Students (AGES) invites you to an exciting semi-formal dance event. This is a great opportunity to meet new friends...

Lay Mental Health Discussions: Novel Treatments in Psychiatry
23 Mar

The Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research in conjunction with the Silvio O. Conte Neuroscience Center is sponsoring a weekly...

Thursday, March 23 | 6:30 PM
Film Screening and Q&A: 'The First World Festival of Negro Arts'
23 Mar

Join us to open the Washington University African Film Festival with a screening of The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966), the official documentary...

Visiting Writer: Eula Biss
23 Mar

Eula Biss is the author of four books: Having and Being Had (2020), On Immunity (2014), Notes from No Man’s Land (2009), and The Balloonists (2002). Her work...

Thursday, March 23 | 8:00 PM

Thursday, March 23