The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program supports original undergraduate research an emphasis on projects pertaining to identity, social justice, and diversity. This fall, Jonathan Fenderson will take the helm of the program.

CRE2’s Tila Neguse sits down with Lois Conley, director of the Griot Museum of Black History and Culture, to talk about the museum, the pandemic, reciprocity and the relationships the museum has built with the Washington University community.

Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor and associate dean for faculty development in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a two-year, $180,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “Millennials and Corporate Employment Practices.”

President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, in the White House Thursday.

Employers that ignore potential pitfalls could inadvertently intensify office biases.

‘Lots of our political disputes focus on how to slice the pie, but enlarging the pie is half the problem’

Two critical conditions of the year 2020 — the major funding cuts to local nonprofits due to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the major groundswell of support for social justice activism following the killing of George Floyd — provided the impetus for an innovative community outreach effort by the Divided City initiative over the summer. 

Black Anthology, Washington University’s performance organization dedicated to telling Black stories, will unveil its Digital Museum Friday, Dec. 18.

Two recent events at Washington University spotlighted the role of public museums and memorials in initiating and giving context to conversations about remembrance, reconciliation and prevention of violence. PhD candidate Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim reports on the broad themes of the events, including the experience of museum-going and what it means to be an “implicated” subject.