Other students were called upon by fate. Whether they were lounging outside Hillman or commuting to classes, the generals indiscriminately tossed sashes left and right, recruiting their troops mere minutes before battle. These new recruits did not know the history of Capture the Flag, but the call to fight was irresistible: Whatever this was, it seemed way more fun than going to class.

More than 20 years after the conclusion of the Human Genome Project, Macias and other researchers at Wang Lab in the Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology are working as a part of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC), an NIH-funded project working to create a reference “pangenome” to capture the full range of human diversity.

Three Arts & Sciences student researchers founded The Washington University Journal for Undergraduate Research (WUJUR). The student-run organization aims to showcase undergraduate research from every academic discipline and create a more permanent platform to display the research. Their first-ever edition will be released by the end of this semester.

Over the past few weeks, articles and reports have been published about this month’s “planetary alignment.” This celestial event is at its peak this week, and can be seen from WashU’s Crow Observatory, weather permitting.

From Oct. 23 through Oct. 26, WashU’s All Student Theater (AST) will perform “The Rest is Silence,” their immersive adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Hamlet.” Rather than the typical proscenium setup, where the audience sits directly facing the stage, AST’s fall performance throws the audience directly into the action. The performance takes place in the Village Black Box Theater (on the lower level of Village House), where AST’s crew has transformed the space into a winding collection of rooms and scenes, complete with props, lighting, and sound design. 

If you’re a student at WashU, you’re likely familiar with the struggle of staying connected to one of the schools many Wi-Fi networks: from eduroam, to wustl-guest, to wustl-encrypted-2.0 and back again. Over the past year, WashU steadily made updates to its Wi-Fi in hopes that students and staff alike can have a more seamless Wi-Fi experience, but students still report some technical difficulties.