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First artificial scaffolds for studying plant cell growth
As a baby seedling emerges from the depths of the soil, it faces a challenge: gravity’s downward push. To succeed, the plant must sense the force, then push upward with an even greater force. Visible...
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Two students participate in German-American Sister Cities Youth Forum
Two Washington University in St. Louis first-year students, Essete Workineh and Johnny Yeldham, both in Arts & Sciences, are among 11 St. Louisans selected to participate in the German-American...
View ArticleThe art and craft of cider
The cherry trees of Washington, D.C. attract considerable crowds every spring. For Sam Fitz, AB ’06, though, a different set of flowering fruit trees — Ornamental Crabapples — are the city’s main...
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Partisanship, the economy and presidential accountability
Over the last century, only five American presidents — Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump — have lost their bid to stay in the White House. What did they have...
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Pursuing reciprocity with plants
Introduction: Beronda L. Montgomery, AB ’94, is a Michigan State University Foundation Professor in the departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and of Microbiology & Molecular...
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Barnes, Loomis win Packard grant for increasing diversity in STEM
Loomis (left) and Barnes Jonathan Barnes, assistant professor, and Richard Loomis, professor and director of graduate studies, both in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington...
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Washington University announces 2022 Great Artists Series
The Great Artists Series at Washington University in St. Louis presents affordably priced concerts by some of the world’s finest classical musicians. In 2022, the series will return to live...
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Flowe wins Littleton-Griswold Prize for ‘Uncontrollable Blackness’
Flowe Douglas Flowe, assistant professor of history in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2021 Littleton-Griswold Prize for his book “Uncontrollable Blackness:...
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Time to retire daylight saving time
Change is upon us once again. Come the first Sunday of November, we will gain an hour of morning sunlight. The one-hour adjustment to the clock on the wall may not sound dramatic. But our biological...
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New database highlights underrepresented scholars of African archaeology
Helina Woldekiros, assistant professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and her collaborators recently launched the...
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Lai to evaluate diversity training for law enforcement
Lai The Department of Justice (DOJ) has awarded Calvin Lai, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, a grant for evaluation...
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Literary invention in the age of disorder
In a new book, Wolfram Schmidgen, professor of English, explains how the excitement and anxiety about a disordered world affected literary invention in 18th-century England. “Infinite Variety:...
View ArticleMore sleep leads to better grades and well-being
Want good grades? Get a good semester’s sleep. But good sleep, it turns out, is not just about quantity. It’s also about consistency. Research from Tim Bono, lecturer in psychological and brain...
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Stone receives grant to study perceptions of CRISPR in food production
Stone Glenn Davis Stone, professor of sociocultural anthropology and of environmental studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is part of an international team of...
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$15 million gift to strengthen life science education, research across...
A decades-long friendship and a shared passion for basic science has inspired a $15 million gift to the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) at Washington University in St. Louis to...
View ArticleZavareh wins NSF grant
Roya Beheshti Zavareh, associate professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, won a three-year $203,917 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on “Rational curves...
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Using microbes to make carbon-neutral fuel
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make a readily usable biofuel. A team of biologists and engineers modified a microbe called...
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St. Louis International Film Festival screenings this month
Secret military experiments. A television star turned health-care activist. The yearslong battle to remove a Confederate statue in New Orleans. This month, the Film & Media Studies program in Arts...
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Van Engen wins the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize
Van Engen Abram Van Engen, professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for “City on a Hill: A History of American...
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University invited to view conversation with Michelle Obama
The Washington University in St. Louis community is invited to watch a livestreamed conversation between former first lady Michelle Obama and college students including WashU sophomore Natasha...
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