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The 2023 Day of Dialogue and Action event takes place April 27 at Emerson Auditorium in Knight Hall on the Danforth Campus. All Washington University in St. Louis faculty, staff and students are welcome.

Sterling K. Brown, a St. Louis native and an award-winning actor who has earned three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe, will deliver the May 15, 2023, Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

Like most historical moments, the move to adopt a need-blind system and improve WashU's socioeconomic diversity numbers didn’t happen overnight.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava” March 22 to July 10. Anchored by a new acquisition, the exhibition presents an expansive view of the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist’s “Bird and Lava” series and coincides with Dyson’s installation “Bird and Lava (Scott Joplin)” as part of St. Louis’ Counterpublic triennial.

Scientists at Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis' environmental field station, are carefully tracking the timing of salamander breeding as part of a larger research effort examining the impacts of climate change on amphibians and plants.

In the years after World War II, a series of global shifts, including African decolonization and the U.S. civil rights movement, led artists to explore a new politics of form, synthesizing and integrating different visual and cultural traditions. This spring, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “African Modernism in America,” the first traveling survey to examine the diverse aesthetic strategies, and complex relationships, between African art...

Samulnori, a genre of traditional Korean percussion music, is among the many acts to perform at the annual Lunar New Year celebration, which will run Feb. 3-4 at Edison Theatre at Washington University in St. Louis.

Washington University in St. Louis medical experts share how students, faculty and staff can stay healthy this holiday season. They note that masks not only slow the spread of COVID-19, but also can stop dangerous viruses such as the flu and RSV, which are currently raging throughout the St. Louis region. 

Washington University in St. Louis recognized distinguished faculty, alumni and friends at the annual Founders Day celebration Nov. 5 at St. Louis Union Station Hotel.

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