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‘Honey bee, it’s me’
For a honey bee, few things are more important than recognizing your nestmates. Being able to tell a nestmate from an invader could mean the difference between a honey-stocked hive and a long, lean...
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Inside the Hotchner Festival: Holly Gabelmann
Holly Gabelmann in Edison Theatre. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) “You need to stay here until I am done robbing this bank. Do you people not understand the concept of a robbery?” — From...
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Parikh co-edits collection documenting Ferguson uprising, afterlives
Parikh Shanti A. Parikh co-edited a collection, “@Ferguson: Still Here in the Afterlives of Black Death, Defiance and Joy,” in social and cultural anthropology’s flagship journal, American Ethnologist,...
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WashU Expert: Remembering Kim Massie
Kim Massie (Photo: KimMassie.com) “Every Tuesday and Thursday night, hundreds gather at Beale on Broadway, a blues bar and music venue located in the shadow of Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis,”...
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2020 election talk: Congressional races
This political science roundtable discussion is the first of a two-part 2020 election series aimed at helping listeners better understand the news, polls and issues in this year’s election. While...
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Barch, Bateman elected to National Academy of Medicine
Deanna M. Barch, an expert in cognitive and language deficits in psychological disorders, and Randall J. Bateman, MD, a leading Alzheimer’s disease researcher, have been elected to the National Academy...
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What cold lizards in Miami can tell us about climate change resilience
It was raining iguanas on a sunny morning. Biologist James Stroud’s phone started buzzing early on Jan. 22. A friend who was bicycling to work past the white sands and palm tree edges of Key Biscayne,...
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Yang’s work with quantum materials honored by APS
Yang Li Yang, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, conducted research with black phosphorus — a material with a thickness of just a few atomic layers — in...
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‘Your voices are exactly the voices the world needs right now’
Generation Z, people currently 18 to 23 years old, make up 10% of eligible voters in 2020. This influx of young and first-time voters has the potential to shape the outcome of the race — if they come...
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2020 election talk: Voter confidence in U.S. presidential results
This political science roundtable discussion is the second in a two-part series aimed at helping listeners to better understand the news, polls and issues in this year’s election. Listen to the first...
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Majority of all voters say climate change is real; more Democrats consider it...
One of the issues at the center of the 2020 election is climate change. A recent survey by the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis found that a majority of voters — 95% of Democrats...
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‘At the edge of political crisis’
Portrait of John Dryden by George White, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1698. (National Portrait Gallery, London) Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell...
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Fail Better: Celia McKee
(Video: Tom Malkowicz/Washington University) “My grant got rejected. I failed. So I’m saying it on Twitter. I don’t want sympathy. I just wish people would say stuff like this on Twitter.” Celia...
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Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric...
The food preparation preferences of Chinese cooks — such as the technological choice to boil or steam grains, instead of grinding or processing them into flour — had continental-scale consequences for...
View ArticleBoard of Trustees grants faculty appointments, promotions
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 2, several faculty members were appointed or promoted with tenure or granted tenure, effective that day unless otherwise...
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Newly discovered fossil documents small-scale evolutionary changes in an...
Males of the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus were thought to be substantially larger than females — much like the size differences seen in modern-day primates such as gorillas, orangutans...
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WashU Expert: The Electoral College
Supporters of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris gather in Times Square in New York on Saturday, Nov. 7. (Photo: Shutterstock) The 2020 presidential election has finally...
View ArticleAn ‘exemplary leader’
“I entered Washington University hoping to prepare myself to be a lawyer. I left with that and much more — a habit of critical thinking, a love of history, lifelong friendships and an enduring...
View ArticleQuoted: Headliners
Alumni, faculty and students have been making headlines during the pandemic for their efforts to help others understand its impact and navigate possible solutions. “Our findings indicate that mothers...
View ArticleLiterary lifeline
Kris Kleindienst, AB ’79, co-owner of Left Bank Books, a 50-year-old St. Louis bookstore, believes reading helps us understand ourselves within the world. And in an era of social unrest and a pandemic...
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