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Deconstructing Many Myths About Women in Construction

1 year 8 months ago
From REjournals:  To mark Women in Construction Week 2024 – which enters its final day today – Clayco, which has Midwest offices in Overland and Clayton, Missouri; Lenexa, Kansas; and Chicago, polled its female leaders about the many myths surrounding women in the construction industry and the actual truths that shatter those falsehoods. Here is […]
Dede Hance

Wash U’s co-founder has a complicated past. A new board could take up his legacy

1 year 8 months ago
For many years, Washington University has portrayed one of its founders, William Greenleaf Eliot, as an abolitionist. But, in 2021, a group of students and faculty released findings that disproved that notion and even showed Eliot was vehemently opposed to abolitionism. Three years later, the university has now established a Naming Review Board that gives people the opportunity to challenge the names of buildings, professorships, and scholarships that are named after people with problematic legacies.

U.S. Senate approves compensation for St. Louis nuclear waste exposures

1 year 8 months ago
The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted again in favor of legislation that would compensate those who developed cancer following exposure to World War II-era radioactive waste in St. Louis. The legislation, sponsored by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, extends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which is set to expire, and expands it to cover individuals who were exposed to the radioactive waste that remains scattered across the St. Louis region. It would also expand coverage to those who…
Allison Kite

Spectrum 2024 Offers a Mixed Bag of New Short Plays at the Chapel

1 year 8 months ago
Though you may not be familiar with the company, First Run Theatre has been supporting Midwest-based playwrights since its founding in 2002. In 2007 the company began producing the Spectrum festival of short plays, offering playwrights the opportunity to stage their works in progress and gather real-time feedback based on performer and audience response. Spectrum 2024 features seven new plays from six playwrights, directed by Melissa Balint Boyer and Rob Corbett and performed by an ensemble featuring Alex Alderson, Iris Clay, Ann Egenriether, Dorothy LaBounty, Justin Panacchia, Erica Perlow, Anna Rimar and Brad Slavik.
Tina Farmer