Paving a path to WashU for rural students
WashU’s Heartland Initiative aims to expand educational access to students from small towns in Missouri and southern Illinois. This September and October, an admissions team logged nearly 10,000 miles traveling to 80 schools in rural Missouri and Illinois.
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Reconfiguring the Ph.D.
Arts & Science’s William Acree describes the university’s attempt to introduce a new, highly transdisciplinary cohort model for incoming graduate students.
Rediscovering ‘The Man Who Cried I Am’
William Maxwell, a professor in Arts & Sciences, was featured on a recent episode of “LOA Live.” Hosted by the Library of America, the program, titled “Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic,” focused on the republication of John A. Williams’ 1967 novel “The Man Who Cried I Am.”
Why a Hot Idea for Making Football Safer Is Such a Hard Sell for the NFL
Preventing head injury is an important objective of the plastic safety helmet, but it is not its primary purpose. Nor has it been, for a very long time, writes Noah Cohan, lecturer in American Culture Studies.
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.
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Rescuing adventure
Shopping. Driving. Parenting. Eating out. Working out. Today, sources of adventure are as limitless as a marketer’s imagination. No activity is too mundane, no product too crass, no invocation too preposterous. In Adventure: An Argument for Limits, Christopher Schaberg grapples with classical conceptions of adventure, their 21st-century simulacra, and the earnest question: What constitutes adventure today?