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Thursday, March 30

Credit: Katherine Simone Reynolds
30 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
30 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
30 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
30 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'
30 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
30 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
30 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
30 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
30 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....

WashU Earth Week 2023
30 Mar

Every year as the harbingers of spring arrive on campus, we start to think more about the earth around us. Annually, April 22 marks Earth Day, but we come to...

Women in Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine
30 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
30 Mar

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

Global Health at Washington University: Here and Next — Day One
30 Mar

The 9th Annual Global Health Conference will bring the Washington University community together to highlight and catalyze global health activities which...

Photo credit: Neal Santos
30 Mar

Hosted in partnership with The Cordell Institute, Bernard Becker Medical Library and the Institute for Informatics.

Thursday, March 30 | 9:30 AM
Community Commitments | Class 1 in the Commit Series 
30 Mar

What commitments has WashU made as an institution in pursuit of equity and inclusion? How does that promise impact staff and faculty in the workplace and...

Thursday, March 30 | 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
WUSM Farmers Market
30 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
30 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
30 Mar

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

Woman & Diverse-Owned Business Marketplace | Medical Campus
30 Mar

In celebration of Women’s History Month, please join the Academy for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and the Department of Supplier Diversity at a business...

Humanities Podcasting Lunch - WashU Graduate Students
30 Mar

Podcasts have increasingly become an exciting forum for academics to share their research, find new audiences, and build communities across the airwaves....

Power Lunch & Learn Series: Careers in Digital Marketing: Current and Future Trends
30 Mar

Professor Michael Wall and panelists will discuss the current state of digital marketing: Cutting Edge Technology: Pros and cons of utilizing AI tools such...

Thursday, March 30 | 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
'Left in the Midwest' Author Talk
30 Mar

Join us for a virtual book talk about the newly published book Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Hear from...

Thursday, March 30 | 4:00 PM
Virtual Event
Annual Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture: Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War
30 Mar

In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards, Aaron Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)—the post–World War II Japanese military—and specifically the...

Thursday, March 30 | 4:00 PM
Plants on the move: influence of lemur behavior on seed dispersal patterns
30 Mar

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

Thursday, March 30 | 4:00 PM
Francophone Week, 3ed.
30 Mar

Celebrated yearly in March, the International Francophonie Week is a worldwide celebration that reunites francophones to celebrate French language and...

AFAS Featured Event: Virtual Roundtable on Reproductive Justice; The Social, Political & Legal Implications of the Overturning of Roe vs Wade
30 Mar

Join our expert panelists, Rebecca Wanzo, Kimala Price, Mellissa Linton and Marlon Bailey as they discuss reproductive, gender, and sexual justice, and the...

Thursday, March 30 | 5:30 PM
Virtual Event
Hebrew Department Film Presentation: 'Noodle'
30 Mar

Join us for an evening of film and cultural contextual discussion. Noodle (2007 / 90 min.) - Directed by Ayelet Menahemi At thirty-seven, Miri is a...

Thursday, March 30 | 6:00 PM
Lay Mental Health Discussions: Novel Treatments in Psychiatry
30 Mar

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

Thursday, March 30 | 6:30 PM
Deb J.J. Lee, “Mourning Due,” 2022. Limited edition print.
30 Mar

Deb JJ Lee (they/them) is a Korean-American illustrator and graphic novelist based in Brooklyn, NY. They have a penchant for making sense of clutter and bold...

Masterclass with Christine Brewer, soprano
30 Mar

WashU students will have the opportunity to perform for legendary soprano Christine Brewer and receive feedback from her in front of an audience.

Thursday, March 30 | 6:30 PM
Campus Creamery Grand Opening
30 Mar

The Campus Creamery combines ice cream, cereal, and music into one out-of-this-world experience. Our grand opening will feature live music by Non-Euclidian...

Thursday, March 30 | 8:00 PM
Visiting Hurst Professor: Renee Gladman, Reading
30 Mar

Professor Renee Gladman is the author of fourteen published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the...

Thursday, March 30 | 8:00 PM

Thursday, March 30