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WashU faculty are welcome to hone their mentoring approach and skills through this immersive, full-day event sponsored by the Office of the Provost, to include a keynote address by Melissa McDaniels, Associate Executive Director of CIMER, panel discussion, networking opportunities, and workshops. The keynote address will be available virtually to those unable to attend the summit. […]

Raven Maragh-Lloyd, an assistant professor of African and African American studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will serve as co-principal investigator for a $1.7 million grant investigating how online influence campaigns, both foreign and domestic, manipulate the fundamental structures and relationships upon which social media is built. Read the full […]

Ron Himes, the Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the Black Theatre Network Lifetime Award during the organization’s 2023 national conference, which takes place in St. Louis July 20-23. Read the full story here.

Limor Golan, an expert in labor economics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was installed as the inaugural Laurence H. Meyer Professor at a ceremony in Holmes Lounge in March. See the full announcement here.

Study after study shows that women, especially African-American women, are underrepresented in STEM jobs. Sheretta Butler-Barnes, a professor at the Brown School, wants to change those statistics. Read the full story here.

Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2023 René Wellek Prize for best monograph from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Read the full story in the Record here.

Mónica Rivera has been named the JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. A lecture and reception to celebrate her appointment were held Feb. 28 in Steinberg Hall. Read the full story here.

The event will feature in-person experiences from keynote speakers, panel discussions and more. The event will take place in Knight Hall, Emerson Auditorium, on WashU’s Danforth Campus from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Overflow seating will take place in Frick Forum and a YouTube live stream also will be available […]

David Cunningham, professor and chair of sociology in Arts & Sciences, and Geoff K. Ward, professor of African and African American studies in Arts & Sciences and director of the WashU & Slavery project, received a $500,000 three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation. Their project will use digital humanities text-mining methods to trace the circulation of reports […]

This new fellow will facilitate faculty mentoring programs during the 2023-24 academic year and should be a tenured Danforth faculty member.  Applications will be accepted until April 6.   The application link can be found here.

Sowande’ Mustakeem, an associate professor of history and of African and African American studies, both in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis, will discuss her award-winning 2016 book, “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage,” for three universities during the spring semester. Read the full story here.

Tonya Edmond, a professor and interim co-dean of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) for 2023. Read the full story in the Record here.

Zakiya Luna, a Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar and associate professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the 2023 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award winner by Sociologists for Women in Society. Vie the full story in the Record here.

Funding from the National Institutes of Health will help Meredith Jackrel and her team study Matrin-3, a poorly understood protein linked to several neurodegenerative disorders. View the full story in the Record here.

Harawa recently received the 2023 Derrick A. Bell Jr. Award, given by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)’ Minority Law Teacher’s Section. Read more about the award here.

The Record highlights the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, the road that led to her substantial research on the health and well-being of diverse communities, and her manifest impact in the St. Louis area and beyond. Read the article here.

The Campus Pride Index is the premier LGBTQIA+ national benchmarking tool for colleges and universities. Previously at a 4.5, Washington University in St. Louis is now receiving full marks along with only 44 other schools out of the 400 institutions surveyed – the only in the state of Missouri. View the WashU Campus Pride Index […]

Established in 1953 to celebrate the institution’s founding 100 years earlier, Founders Day also marks a time when the university community gathers to recognize distinguished alumni, faculty and friends of the university. Seven faculty were awarded for their outstanding contributions to students, as well as service to the Washington University and St. Louis communities at […]

The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures (ITF), a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan, was created to catalyze and support bold collaborations that foster the future of scholarly inquiry. ITF achieves its mission to nurture innovative academic configurations in part by funding multiyear thematic clusters and programmatic grants. These clusters and grants bring […]

Javier García Liendo, an associate professor in Arts & Sciences and a faculty fellow in the Center for the Humanities, explains his book project, which considers teachers’ role as agents of rural progress in the Andean provinces of Peru between 1939 and 1967. You can read the interview here.