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Lessons and cautions from 1965 to fight white supremacy
In his inauguration speech, President Joe Biden said his administration would confront and defeat the rise of political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism. David Cunningham, professor...
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Lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano
Time-lapse video of a Shiveluch volcano eruption (Video: Michael Krawczynski) There isn’t much in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in northeastern Russia just across the Bering Sea from Alaska, besides...
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Translating and in translation
Arts & Sciences doctoral candidates Sayed Kashua and Olivia Lott have won literary honors for a pair of recent books. The Grove Atlantic edition of Kashua’s novel “Track Changes,” originally...
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WashU’s French Connexions named French Embassy Center of Excellence
The French Connexions Cultural Center at Washington University in St. Louis has been elected to the Centers of Excellence of the Embassy of France. Cuillé Currently housed at 22 major U.S. research...
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Biologist Landis awarded NSF grant to model evolution of Hawaiian plants
In island ecosystems, geographical features such as inter-island distances or differences in altitude may influence how rapidly species split into two lineages, go extinct or disperse. Here is an...
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An historic opportunity to combat systemic racism
On Jan. 26, President Biden signed four new executive orders collectively aimed at addressing racial inequality and justice. The actions strengthen anti-discrimination housing policies, instruct the...
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Risk analysis helps contend with uncertainty of in-person activities
As states and municipalities begin to roll out mass vaccination campaigns, some people have dared to ask: When will it be safe to resume “normal” activities again? For those in most parts of the United...
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Mirror, mirror on the monitor
Most people wouldn’t sit in front of a mirror for hours a day, checking themselves out, but the COVID-19 pandemic has found many doing just that. Video chatting services such as Zoom have become a...
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Wanzo wins Society for Cinema and Media Studies award
Rebecca Wanzo, chair and professor of women, gender and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for outstanding...
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Biologist Dixit awarded $2M to study dynamics of intracellular scaffolds
Multi-tasking much, these days? The microtubule cytoskeleton is, too. This network of protein filaments is essential to cellular processes in both plants and animals. The microtubule cytoskeleton...
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Kim wins NEA Literature Translation Fellowship
Washington University in St. Louis doctoral candidate Jae Kim has won a 2021 Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Kim, who studies in the Comparative Literature...
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Women are more likely to work under, and violate, pay secrecy policies
It has been more than half a century since the landmark Equal Pay Act passed, yet the gender pay gap still exists. On average, women make 18% less than their male counterparts. Lack of transparency in...
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Zafar to discuss Langston Hughes for LOA Live
Rafia Zafar, professor of English, of African and African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will discuss the legacy of...
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McGlothlin named vice dean of undergraduate affairs in Arts & Sciences
Holocaust studies scholar Erin McGlothlin has been named vice dean of undergraduate affairs in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, effective June 1, announced Feng Sheng Hu, the...
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Washington University in St. Louis · American Democracy Lab Podcast – Episode 1: The Presidency A new podcast, The American Democracy Lab, launches today. Now more than ever, it’s important to be able...
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Building a better green workhorse
Himadri Pakrasi, the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor in biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, leads a team awarded $1.7 million from the National...
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Wang receives grant to study volatiles in early solar system
Kun Wang, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received a $506,053 grant from the NASA Emerging Worlds program for his...
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New book comes face to face with misdiagnosis
When WashU alum Susannah Cahalan, AB ’07, set out to document an inexplicable and sudden descent into madness that ultimately led to an autoimmune disease diagnosis, her efforts were met with great...
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In “The Business of Elections” (I60 BEYOND 102), over 70 students examined the 2020 presidential campaign through the lenses of both political science and business. Andrew Reeves, associate professor...
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Baseball finally integrates its record book
Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, is a big baseball fan and sports scholar. He was in Ken Burns’ documentary Baseball, which came out in 1994. Plus, he writes extensively...
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