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Kapoor selected for Lindau Nobel Laureate conference
Kapoor Yashika Kapoor, a postdoctoral fellow in physics from Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to participate in the 73rd annual Lindau Nobel Laureate...
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War magnifies politicians’ gendered behavior, public biases, research finds
Women’s participation in politics is essential to advancing women’s rights and contributes to countries’ overall stability and economic prosperity. According to a 2023 report by UN Women and the...
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WashU theorists help advance nuclear physics research at DOE facility
Physicists Saori Pastore and Maria Piarulli in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis are part of an influential group of scientists shaping the theoretical framework behind...
View ArticlePhysics student Brodie selected for prestigious DOE program
Liam Brodie, a graduate student working with Mark Alford, a professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Department...
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Statistician He installed as Kotzubei-Beckmann Distinguished Professor
Xuming He, chair of the Department of Statistics and Data Science in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was installed as the inaugural Kotzubei-Beckmann Distinguished Professor...
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Ten inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University to recognize outstanding scholarly achievement, recently inducted eight doctoral candidates and two...
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Stan H. Braude, professor of practice in Arts & Sciences, 62
Stan Braude, photographed in Kenya in 2017, was a world expert on naked mole-rat ecology, evolution and behavior in the wild. (Photo: Roland Gockel) Stan Braude, a professor of practice in biology and...
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Internal clock helps cyanobacteria sustain life on this planet
Most organisms on this planet rely on an internal circadian clock to function properly. New research published by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis investigates the function of the...
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Why some plant diseases thrive in urban environments
Something about city life seems to suit powdery mildew, a fungal disease that afflicts many plants, including leaves of garden vegetables and roadside weeds. Rachel Penczykowski, an assistant...
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The next generation of design
Associate Professor Jonathan Hanahan (center) with students in the Sensory and Ambient Interfaces Lab. Hanahan will serve as chair of WashU’s new Master of Design for Human-Computer Interaction and...
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Oppenheimer named Religion & Politics executive editor
Mark Oppenheimer is the new executive editor of Religion & Politics. Mark Oppenheimer — a well-known religion writer who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, GQ, Slate,...
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Bose named Fulbright Scholar
Bose Arpita Bose, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2024-25. The award, granted by the...
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Biologists take closer look at stress response in cells
Zaher When cells encounter challenges like nutrient shortages, they activate a response known as the integrated stress response, which produces specific proteins to help the cells survive. A study led...
View ArticleBook explores consequences of political conversations
Misinformation is a threat to democracy, but who’s to blame? Is it mainstream media, politicians, social media? Or, could there be another culprit — everyday citizens? In her new book, “Through the...
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Sampling eDNA for global biodiversity census
Andres Kara Andres, a postdoctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in St. Louis, collected samples of water from Simpson Lake, in Valley Park, Mo., as part of a...
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The continued need for DEI in the workplace
Nobody goes into emergency medicine expecting to have an easy career. But for some doctors, including “Max,” an ER shift can include stressors beyond the high-paced demand to save lives. As a Black...
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The motherhood entrepreneurs
One late night 10 years ago, Chelsea Hirschhorn, AB ’06, struggled to settle her sick infant back to sleep. She tried clearing the baby’s congestion with a hospital-provided bulb syringe, but she...
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‘You think, so you can dance’
On the first day of class, Elinor Harrison, AB ’01, PhD ’18, asks her students to think about the primary purpose of the brain. “Cognition? Perception? Motor learning? Emotion? “Of course, that’s a...
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‘An amazing story’
WashU’s Gerald Early served as a curatorial consultant for “The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball,” a new exhibition that opened May 25 at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York....
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Winner’s circle
Teddy Wayne, MFA ’07, has made a career out of writing novels that are set in some of the defining cultural moments of this 21st century. His first novel, Kapitoil (2010, begun while he was a WashU...
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