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How gender bias influences perceptions, votes in elections
On Jan. 20, 2021, Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States — the first woman, the first Black American and the first South Asian American to be elected to this position. Four...
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How ChiChi is disrupting the breakfast business
At first, Washington University in St. Louis students Izzy Gorton and Chiara Munzi wanted to call their chickpea hot breakfast cereal GOATMeal, a play on the term “greatest of all time” and oatmeal....
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‘Mother’ lode
What if we could speak to our deceased ancestors? What if they could answer back? For a decade, Katya Apekina, MFA ’11, had on her laptop the Russian journals of her grandmother, who had chronicled...
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Crossing borders, bridging divides
Seth Graebner has long been fascinated by borders and the areas around them. “In graduate school and since then, I have crossed a lot of borders,” says Graebner, associate professor of French and of...
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When I graduated from my PhD program in 2003, I entered a buoyant academic job market and chose WashU from among a number of attractive tenure-track positions. In the 20-plus years since then, the...
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Tyson Center gets local high schoolers involved in research
Early in the morning of a summer day, high school students Hope Jett and Kari Koerner are counting mosquitoes in a tree-canopied clearing of Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis’...
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Patty Jo Watson, professor emerita in anthropology, 92
During the 1960s, WashU anthropologist Patty Jo Watson systematically recorded archaeological remains in the extensive passages of Salts Cave in Mammoth Cave National Park. She is pictured here at the...
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How ChiChi is disrupting the breakfast business
At first, Washington University in St. Louis students Izzy Gorton and Chiara Munzi wanted to call their chickpea hot breakfast cereal GOATMeal, a play on the term “greatest of all time” and oatmeal....
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‘Mother’ lode
What if we could speak to our deceased ancestors? What if they could answer back? For a decade, Katya Apekina, MFA ’11, had on her laptop the Russian journals of her grandmother, who had chronicled...
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Crossing borders, bridging divides
Seth Graebner has long been fascinated by borders and the areas around them. “In graduate school and since then, I have crossed a lot of borders,” says Graebner, associate professor of French and of...
View ArticleA new era for the humanities
When I graduated from my PhD program in 2003, I entered a buoyant academic job market and chose WashU from among a number of attractive tenure-track positions. In the 20-plus years since then, the...
View ArticleInnovating for the future of medicine
“There’s nothing more exciting than knowing that what you do at work has the potential to change people’s lives,” says Chris Boerner, AB ’93. “I see the impact we’re making on global health every...
View ArticleHumans change their own behavior when training AI
A new cross-disciplinary study by Washington University in St. Louis researchers has uncovered an unexpected psychological phenomenon at the intersection of human behavior and artificial intelligence...
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Tyson Center gets local high schoolers involved in research
Early in the morning of a summer day, high school students Hope Jett and Kari Koerner are counting mosquitoes in a tree-canopied clearing of Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis’...
View ArticleEmpowering women to thrive in politics
In Missouri, women hold only two of the 10 seats in the U.S. House and Senate (20%), 55 state legislature seats (28%) and no statewide elected executive seats, according to the Center for American...
View ArticleHow GOP has gained ground with unions, impact on 2024 election
Unions are one of the few organizations left that both influence members to vote and influence who they will vote for. The other is churches. So while union membership is declining — today, about one...
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