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Friday, March 24

Credit: Katherine Simone Reynolds
24 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
24 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
24 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
24 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'
24 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
24 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
24 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
24 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
24 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
24 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...

Data Cleaning with Python
24 Mar

Data can be messy. Researchers commonly lament the amount of time spent preparing data before any analysis can take place. Potential steps for preparing or...

Friday, March 24 | 10:00 AM
African Modernism in America
24 Mar

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

Dr. Jason Ren, Princeton University
24 Mar

Jason Ren, Professor Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering Princeton University Abstract Wastewater collection and treatment systems are major...

Friday, March 24 | 11:00 AM
Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava
24 Mar

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

Toward Factuality in Information Access: Multimodal Factual Knowledge Acquisition
24 Mar

Manling Li PhD Candidate Computer Science Department University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Traditionally, multimodal information consumption has...

Friday, March 24 | 11:00 AM
Jubel 121
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Lunch and Q & A with Cynde Strand
24 Mar

Join the Storytelling Lab for lunch and a conversation with Cynde Strand, legendary CNN camerawoman and news producer, whose 30 year career took her around...

Friday, March 24 | 11:30 AM
Future Fridays - The Transdisciplinary Futures Initiative: Mindfulness, Science, and Practice
24 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: Black Joy Collaborative
24 Mar

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

Fox Fridays: 3D Printing
24 Mar

This workshop will display our school’s current 3D scanning capacity and how it can be used to create digital files and replicate objects on the 3d printer....

Department of Music Lecture: Lisa Pollock Mumme & Tad Biggs
24 Mar

Lisa Pollock Mumme, PhD student in musicology, Washington University in St. Louis Title “Death on the Road: Music and the Deaths of Women in the Mad Max...

Pride Game: Softball with Athletics
24 Mar

In collaboration with the Department of Athletics, join us for pride night at the softball game. This event is student centered.

Friday, March 24 | 3:00 PM
Latin American Film Festival @ WashU
24 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...

17th African Film Festival: Precious Hair Beauty and Saint Omer
24 Mar

The 17th annual African Film Festival invites St. Louisans to see Africa’s most acclaimed films on the big screen. This year’s showcase includes six films...

Friday, March 24 | 7:00 PM

Friday, March 24