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Thursday, August 31

 This image is an illustration by Stanley Galli that was painted for a Weyerhaeuser advertisement. The illustration can be found in Washington University in St. Louis’ Walter Reed Illustrative Archive within the Modern Graphic History Library Collection.
31 Aug

The Artifacts & Fictions exhibition presents selected works from the Master of Fine Arts in Illustration and Visual Culture (MFA-IVC) students as a part of...

Domesticated Pulp: Archie Publications and the Comics Code
31 Aug

For over 50 years, the Comics Code Authority enforced its Seal of Approval, a set of self-imposed guidelines used to judge comics as appropriate for all...

Fall Drama Auditions
31 Aug

GENERAL AUDITIONS for the fall semester will take place in-person and through online submission. GENERAL AUDITIONS for The A.E. Hotchner Playwriting...

Thursday, August 31 | 12:00 AM
Long shalt thou live, if these well be done: Food, Drink and Health
31 Aug

You are what you eat! From medieval humoral theory using food to balance one's complexion to American homesteading recipes on making meals that best aid...

Reaching New Heights: The Life and Legacy of Michael W. Friedlander
31 Aug

Distinguished professor of physics Michael W. Friedlander led an extraordinary life dedicated to his family and students at Washington University in St....

Shakespeare in Hand
31 Aug

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...

The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
31 Aug

The Assembled Playwright exhibition presents highlights from the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O’Neill. The exhibition includes manuscripts,...

Flora Chen, ARCH 311: Architectural Design I. Canopy Grove. Instructor Hans Tursack, Fall 2022.
31 Aug

This exhibition features work from the 2022-23 academic year in the College of Architecture selected for the upcoming undergraduate publication of student...

Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence
31 Aug

The Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence exhibition discusses the connection between whiteness, gender and violence through women...

Fire & Freedom: 'Food and Enslavement in Early America'
31 Aug

The traveling exhibition from the NLM explore ways in which meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders and...

Digital Transformation Coffee Hour
31 Aug

Curious about WashU's new Digital Transformation initiative? Have ideas? Want to get involved? Every Thursday, you can join Philip R.O. Payne, Digital...

BME Seminar: Steve Abramowitch, PhD
31 Aug

Presenting on “From Voxels to Valsalva: Understanding the Function of the Female Pelvic Floor through Imaging and Computational Methods”. Steve Abramowitch,...

EEPS Colloquium: Rita Parai
31 Aug

Exploring planetary volatile origins and transport with noble gases

Thursday, August 31 | 11:30 AM
Astrophysics Seminar with Joern Wilms on Highlights from eROSITA
31 Aug

Launched on 13 July 2019, the eROSITA instrument has performed the deepest All Sky Survey of the 0.2-10 keV X-ray sky to date. Before the survey had to be...

Thursday, August 31 | 2:00 PM
WashU Campus Departments Student Employment Fair
31 Aug

Come meet with WashU departments and schools that are recruiting students for paid on-campus internships, part-time positions and federal work-study jobs.

Thursday, August 31 | 2:00 PM
University Shield
31 Aug

The MEMS department welcomes our incoming class of PhD students! We will have a poster session hosted by our 2nd-year PhD students (and any others who would...

A Waste of Time or a Chance to Reset the OS: Why Do Animals Sleep?
31 Aug

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

Thursday, August 31 | 4:00 PM
Tour the Brown School Library
31 Aug

Take a walking tour of the Brown School Library and learn where the resources are located. No registration needed.

WU Cinema presents: 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
31 Aug

FANTASTiC MR. FOX (2009) in 35mm! Based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book comes a quirky tale of a fox, or rather, a fantastic fox. Up on a hill, in a...

Thursday, August 31 | 8:00 PM

Thursday, August 31