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PAD announces free tickets for students

4.20.18

Libraries’ Neureuther essay contest winners named

4.20.18 | Arts & Humanities, Awards & Notables, Campus Life

University Libraries has selected the winners of the 2018 Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition. The Neureuther competition offers prizes to both undergraduate students and graduate students who write short essays about their personal book collections.

4.19.18

The Exit Interview: Dennis Martin reflects on decades of service to WashU

4.17.18

Faculty, students participate in climate summit April 22-24

4.17.18 | Natural Sciences & Math, Campus Life

Washington University faculty and students will moderate panels at the Saint Louis Climate Summit, hosted by Saint Louis University. Students, faculty and staff can attend an evening with Bill Nye of “Science Guy” fame and environmentalist Carl Pope on April 23 for free by showing their IDs at the ticket booth.

4.17.18

Lifeguard to Return When Snow Melts: Results of the 2018 A&S Student Photo Contest

4.12.18

Color of Policing Symposium explores youth, education, activism April 19-20

St. Louis leaders, scholars to discuss impact of schools, courts, police on urban youth

4.12.18 | Social Sciences, Campus Life

The prospects for improved law enforcement-community relations in St. Louis and beyond will be explored as the “Color of Policing Symposium (COPS): Youth, Education and Activism” brings together urban scholars and city leaders for a two-day symposium April 19-20 on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

4.12.18

Phi Beta Kappa: Recognizing remarkable students

4.11.18

The Litter of Political Wastelands: ‘Fake News’ and the Politics of Truth in Contemporary Syria

4.11.18 | Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Campus Life

The proliferation of junk-knowledge about Syria — in the form of memes, websites, videos and biased news reporting — makes it an apt site to question the physical and metaphorical litter of contemporary politics. Anne-Marie McManus and Nancy Reynolds write about the toxic consequences of the visible and invisible “stuff” that flows and distorts landscapes.

4.10.18

'Does compassion exist?'

PAD presents Wallace Shawn’s ‘Aunt Dan and Lemon’ April 13-22

4.10.18 | Arts & Humanities, Faculty, Campus Life

News is for fools. Kindness is a lie. Killing, to our animal nature, is simply enjoyable. Wallace Shawn’s “Aunt Dan and Lemon,” which the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will stage April 13-22, explores the fragility of civilized society, and how easily cultured masks slip before the face of power.

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