Liam Otten

A remembrance of Howard Nemerov, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and longtime WashU professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has been named to the Notable Essays list in “Best American Essays 2024.”

Collaborative, Mellon-funded project to highlight St. Louis arts and culture

Hylarie McMahon, a professor emerita of art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, died in hospice Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, following a short illness. She was 94.

Mary Jo Bang, a professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the 2024 Tradition of Literary Excellence Award from the University City Municipal Commission on Arts & Letters.

WashU's Civil Society Initiative explores reasoning and citizenship

Major shows to include ‘Seeds: Containers of a World to Come’ and ‘Making Their Mark: Works from Shah Garg Collection'

Tristan Dumas (left) plays Mr. Darcy, Ella Sherlock is Charlotte Lucas and Hope McKinney is Lizzy Bennet. (Photo: Danny Reise/WashU)

Three faculty members from WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — Chandler Ahrens, Constance Vale and Kelley Van Dyck Murphy — have been named University Design Research Fellows for the 2024-25 cycle of Exhibit Columbus.

Can we ever see too much data? Yes, actually. In some situations, visual overload can paralyze decision-making. But over the last year, the interdisciplinary SAIL lab, with help from WashU Rowing, has explored nonvisual means for transmitting real-time performance feedback.

Can we ever see too much data? Yes, actually. In certain situations, visual overload can paralyze decision-making. Adding one more screen, one more monitor, one more chart, table, ticker or graph becomes counterproductive.