Class of 2024: Committed to climate solutions
Meet 12 members of the Washington University in St. Louis 2024 graduating class ready to address the globe’s climate, environmental and sustainability challenges.
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Powers discusses book on experimental film
John Powers, in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, takes part in a podcast about his recent book, “Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture,” which explores how the Bolex camera and other small-gauge media technologies provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact.
‘Unfreezing the frame: The art of the embodied experience’
Art historian Nathaniel B. Jones, in Arts & Sciences, explores the artwork Laocoon at the Vatican Museums and the different perspectives that viewers may gain when visiting a sculpture in person rather than through a two-dimensional image or written text.
Passover: The festival of freedom and the ambivalence of exile
Nancy E. Berg, professor of Hebrew language and literature
Videos
WashU balloon goes over big
For the first time, WashU sponsored a hot air balloon in the Great Forest Park Balloon Race, an annual hot air balloon festival held in Forest Park. “Time Traveler” was among the dozens of entrants that delighted the STL community Sept. 15-16, 2023.
Bookshelf
Can’t we all just get along?
A new book from the School of Law’s John Inazu offers a path for disagreeing productively and living joyfully in our divided society.