On Oct. 23, WashU’s Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging came together for their first-ever intergenerational conversation with the goal of fostering meaningful conversation between age groups in the midst of a tense election season, growing political polarization, and widespread social-media misinformation. Students sat in groups of three and four in round tables across the classroom, directly across elderly residents of St. Louis and WashU teaching faculty.

I turned 20 over Thanksgiving break, and I spent my last day as a teenage girl in Orlando, Florida, in my childhood bedroom.

Washington University’s Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging hosted its fifth annual Crash Course in Aging event in Hillman Hall on Monday, Oct. 16. 

What makes LeBron the greatest basketball player of all time is what he has done off the court and—to some extent—on the court: He’s going bald.