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Brainy birds may fare better under climate change
Many North American migratory birds are shrinking in size as temperatures have warmed over the past 40 years. But those with very big brains, relative to their body size, did not shrink as much as...
View ArticlePonder to study protein-ion binding
Jay Ponder, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received a $152,775 supplemental award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of...
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Tending our grief
“We need to wail. We need to scream. And if we can’t, we need to find some way to siphon out the pain, because grief is everywhere,” writes Merissa Nathan Gerson, AB ’04, in her first book Forget...
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Kirill Gerstein and Garrick Ohlsson Feb. 27
Pianists Kirill Gerstein (left) and Garrick Ohlsson will perform works by Adès, Busoni, Rachmaninoff and Ravel Feb. 27. (Photos: Marco Borggreve and Dario Acosta) Garrick Ohlsson is a “marvel of...
View ArticleValdez to help promote diversity in health research
Ryan Valdez, a graduate student working with Petra Levin in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won a $105,033 Maximizing Investigators’ Research...
View ArticleParai wins CAREER grant to study geochemistry of the deep Earth
Rita Parai, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won a $720,899 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for...
View ArticleMondal wins NSF grants
Debashis Mondal, associate professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received a $299,999 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)...
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Putin is using ‘victim’ narrative to justify Ukraine attack
After months of anticipation, failed negotiations and broken promises, Russia launched a wide-scale military attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24. Yet questions remain regarding Vladimir Putin’s...
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Craver wins National Science Foundation grant
Craver Carl F. Craver, a professor of philosophy and of philosophy-neuroscience-psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a grant of $282,603 from the National...
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Seismic study reveals key reason why Patagonia is rising as glaciers melt
The icefields that stretch for hundreds of miles atop the Andes mountain range in Chile and Argentina are melting at some of the fastest rates on the planet. The ground that was beneath this ice is...
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‘The Neutral Ground’
Why is it so hard to break up with the Confederacy? That’s the question posed by Daily Show field producer CJ Hunt in the award-winning documentary “The Neutral Ground.” The film, which debuted at the...
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APA selects Bogdan as fellow
Bogdan Ryan Bogdan, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected as a 2022 American Psychological...
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Big data arrives on the farm
Surveillance and the pervasive presence of “big data” are foregone conclusions in this tech-saturated, consumer-driven world. But what happens when big data informs not only what people buy, but how...
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Faculty Book Celebration March 3
Charles Johnson (Photo courtesy of the artist) Acclaimed author, cartoonist, philosopher, screenwriter and essayist Charles Johnson, who won the 1990 National Book Award for his novel “Middle...
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From the Congo to the carpool
Every day, anthropologist Crickette Sanz gets a text message or two from a 100-square mile forest preserve National Geographic once called, “The Last Place on Earth.” The daily contact with the...
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PAD presents ‘Rent’ March 3-6
The cast of “Rent.” (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University) Rent, my amigos, is dueOr I will have to evict youBe there in a few‑ Benny Things are hard. Sickness rages. Money is tight and the...
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Honoring a dying wish
Work has hardly slowed down for William R. Lowry, professor emeritus of political science in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, since he retired in 2021. For the last two...
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WashU scientists help recover gases from Moon rock time capsule
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a container of lunar soil that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on the surface of the Moon in 1972. The...
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Kathleen Ann Schneider, longtime staff in Arts & Sciences, 73
Schneider Kathleen Ann Schneider, a longtime administrative assistant in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, March 1, 2022. She was...
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APS selects English as fellow
Tammy English, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected as a 2022 Association for Psychological Science...
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