**Unlocking the Future: Innovations Shaping Tomorrow**

Renowned playwright and MacArthur “genius grant” awardee Lynn Nottage (right) engages with students in the “Advanced Playwriting” course, instructed by Zachariah Ezer, within Arts & Sciences. Nottage visited the campus in April to receive WashU’s 2025 International Humanities Prize. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)

Violist Amy Greenhalgh (left), who teaches applied music and serves as assistant dean of advising, collaborates with visiting cellist Kimberly Jeong, the interim director of strings and chamber music, for Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Eyeglass Duo” on March 31 at the 560 Music Center’s Pillsbury Theatre. (Photo: Jamie Perkins)

Guitarist W. Mark Akin, applied music instructor, performs “Variations on a Theme of Sor,” Op. 15 composed by Miguel Llobet on March 31 in the 560 Music Center’s Pillsbury Theatre. (Photo: Jamie Perkins)

Riisa Rawlins, CEO of the Community Health Commission of Missouri, presents the mini keynote during the second day of the Brown School’s “Bridging Data Divides: Collaborating for Impact” event on May 2 in the Clark-Fox Forum within Hilman Hall. (Photo: Danny Reise/WashU)

Steven Fazzari (left) from Arts & Sciences discusses during the Weidenbaum Center’s panel on “The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration” held on April 30 at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center. Panelists included faculty experts Andrew Reeves (right), Deanna Barch, Krister Knapp, and Ariela Schachter, with Elizabeth Larson serving as moderator, all from Arts & Sciences. (Photo: Rebecca K Clark/WashU)

Preparations for Commencement commence on May 5 at Francis Olympic Field. (Photo: Joe Angeles/WashU)

A member of the Bears track and field team trains for the national championships as preparations for Commencement continue on May 7 at Francis Olympic Field. (Photo: Joe Angeles/WashU)

Artist Tim Youd recreates Stanley Elkin’s 1971 novel, “The Dick Gibson Show,” typing it verbatim during overnight sessions from April 13 to May 1 on KWUR, WashU’s student radio outlet. This performance is part of Youd’s “100 Novels Project,” where he types literary works using the same make and model of typewriter originally employed by the author. Youd is in St. Louis as part of the WashU Libraries exhibit “Stanley and Joan Elkin’s Artistic Kingdom.” Stanley Elkin taught in the English Department within Arts & Sciences from 1960 until his passing in 1995. (Photo: Virginia Harold/WashU)

Ting Wang (left), leading the Department of Genetics at WashU Medicine, provides closing comments at the department’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium held on April 24 in Moore Auditorium on the Medical Campus. The event highlighted the department’s legacy, its members, and the scientific community with both current and former faculty, students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff. (Photo courtesy of Wang)

Students and laboratory members from WashU Medicine’s Department of Genetics showcase their posters at the department’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium on April 24 at the Couch Biomedical Research Building on the Medical Campus. (Photo: Eliza Gan/WashU Medicine)

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