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Wick appointed Dean’s Fellow for Digital Transformation

11.30.22

A semester of songs and stories

11.30.22

Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

11.30.22 |

Using advanced geochemical analyses, a team of scientists, including Michael Frachetti, professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences, have uncovered new answers to decades-old questions about trade of tin throughout Eurasia during the Late Bronze Age.

11.29.22

Defining literacies for life and career

11.28.22

Creating the best of what life can offer

11.28.22 |

As founder and CEO of City Winery, a national chain of music venues that offers wine and fine dining, Michael Dorf, AB ’84, BSBA ’84, has made it his mission to provide an experience that will “indulge the senses.”

11.28.22

50 years — and change

11.28.22 |

After two years of pivot and patience, three reunion classes — the Classes of ’70, ’71 and ’72 — got together to celebrate 50th reunions at this year’s Commencement.

11.28.22

Teaching beyond the call

11.28.22 |

Andia Augustin-Billy, MA ’09, PhD ’15, was the first Black faculty member to receive tenure in the 196-year history of Centenary College. Now, she strives to be a mentor to younger faculty like she was mentored while she was at WashU.

11.28.22

‘Compton effect’

11.28.22 |

Arthur Holly Compton, WashU’s ninth chancellor, conducted X-ray scattering experiments in 1922 that demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. At the time, the idea that light had both wave and particle properties was not easily accepted. His discovery stimulated the development of quantum mechanics and was recognized with the Nobel Prize in 1927.

11.23.22

Physicist Errando helps NASA solve black hole jet mystery

11.23.22 |

Manel Errando in Arts & Sciences is part of a team that determined that particle acceleration within black hole jets is best explained by a shock wave within the jet.

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