
Students listen to panelists Tom Maier (center) and Michelle Ashford (right) at the Nov. 3 Assembly Series program celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication, “Human Sexual Response,” detailing Masters and Johnson’s groundbreaking research. Maier wrote their biography, and Ashford is the Showtime series’ creator. (Photo: Mary Butkus/ Washington University)

The university held a celebration Nov. 11 in recognition of the African and African-American Studies program in Arts & Sciences becoming a full department. Lerone Martin (left), of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, visits with Gerald Early, inaugural chair. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University)

University City High School ninth graders visited the Washington University campus in November as part of the First Year Reading Program. They participated in a discussion of the book “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and toured the Kemper Art Museum. The Institute for School Partnership hosted the visit.

Washington University students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered for the annual Dance Marathon, benefiting two children’s hospitals in St. Louis, in the Danforth University Center Nov. 12. Here, Will Sieling (right) leads a conga line, followed by Patti Thop, wife of Provost Holden Thorp, Risa Zwerling Wrighton, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and others. (Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington University)
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