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Obituary: Gaylyn Studlar, celebrated film scholar, 73
Studlar speaking for the WashU Film and Media Studies Colloquium Lecture Series on April 17, 2025. (Photo: Film and Media Studies) Film scholar and theorist Gaylyn Studlar, the David May Distinguished...
View ArticleNew Transcend Initiative to address mycobacteria threats
In Brief WashU’s MycoTranscend Initiative joins experts in medicine, chemistry and public health to tackle dangerous mycobacterial infections. Missouri experiences five times the national average of...
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Hotchner Festival highlights WashU playwrights
In Brief The festival is modeled on professional theater development workshops. All plays are selected by “blind” submission. The readings are free and open to the public. The cast of “What We Talk...
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American parents need comprehensive work-family plan
In Brief Childcare affordability and availability remain major challenges for American families. Vice President JD Vance’s proposal redirecting childcare subsidies to married couples with a...
View ArticlePristine sulfur preserves a snapshot of ancient Mars
In 2024, the Mars Curiosity rover came across an unexpected sight: a large field of light-colored, fist-sized stones. Readings from the rover’s X-ray spectrometer showed that the rocks were pure, or...
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The student becomes a master
As a pediatric neurosurgeon, S. Hassan A. Akbari, MD, improves the lives of children with cerebral palsy and other muscle spasticity disorders. His areas of expertise include selective dorsal...
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The day Aaron Copland came to town
During my university years, I would often spend my lunch breaks scooting over to Clayton Famous-Barr or The Record Bar to listen and buy records with my lunch money. And you might even find me over at...
View ArticleCatching ZZZs
When you’re awake, all your brain’s functions gradually deteriorate. Sleep somehow restores them and may hold the key to understanding how brains operate. “Sleep is one of the great mysteries in...
View ArticleAbove the fold
Student journalism can sometimes seem ordinary. Another guest lecturer, another Student Union debate about funding minutia. Sometimes, Student Life is … just student life. But there are times when the...
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Boy, interrupted
Stefan Merrill Block, AB ’04, was in fourth grade when his mother declared him a creative genius and pulled him out of his Plano, Texas, elementary school to homeschool him. Just him, and not his...
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The artist’s way
For more than six decades, John Moore has been creating artwork that helps us see the world through a different windowpane. “Nothing ever goes from start to finish in the way you initially imagined...
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Barch receives $3 million to study hallucinations, delusions in schizophrenia
A team of WashU researchers has received a federal grant to study the mechanisms underlying hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia. (Image: Shutterstock) A team led by psychology researcher...
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Waterlogged seeds reveal melons’ ancient journey
Melons produce many seeds, making the melon shape a traditional symbol of fertility and prosperity in Chinese culture. But the historical debate about how melons made their way to modern tables is as...
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Kim-Yu wins Newcombe dissertation fellowship
Naomi Kim-Yu, a doctoral candidate in English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American culture studies, both in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won a Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from...
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Barmash elected president of National Association of Professors of Hebrew
Pamela Barmash, a professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew and interim chair of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been elected president of the...
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‘The Color Purple’ opens Black Rep’s 50th season
It’s Sunday morning in rural Georgia. Sisters Celie and Nettie sing of playing along the riverbank. But arriving at church, Celie drags her feet. As the congregation gossips, the pregnant teenager...
View ArticleHester Blum
Everything is “Moby-Dick,” according to Hester Blum. Does the novel relate to oceanic studies? Obviously. Climate change and clean energy? Absolutely. “Moby-Dick” and “Heated Rivalry”? That, too....
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Sawyer Seminar Lecture Series to launch Sept. 10
Angela Davis (left), Davarian Baldwin and Nikole Hannah-Jones will speak at WashU. (Photos courtesy of the speakers) The Center for the Humanities and the Department of African and African American...
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Chiarello named IAS fellow, recognized for best sociology book
Elizabeth Chiarello, associate professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was recently honored by both the American Sociological Association and the Institute...
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Some assembly required, with machine learning
Machine learning doesn’t replace human intelligence, but it can outlast human endurance, which makes it a very helpful tool for chemistry and material discovery. Scientists know the machine learning...
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