How to depolarize social media
At a time when political polarization is becoming an increasing problem on social media, WashU data scientist Jean Springsteen is working on a way to bring down the temperature and still get buy-in...
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WashU news director joins science writers board
Shaffer Leah Shaffer, a senior director for science news at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected to the board of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW). New NASW board of...
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Ball gowns and running shoes
Tristan Dumas (left) plays Mr. Darcy, Ella Sherlock is Charlotte Lucas and Hope McKinney is Lizzy Bennet. (Photo: Danny Reise/WashU) “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in...
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Carlen wins Association for Women in Science award
Carlen Biologist Elizabeth Carlen, a postdoctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative at WashU, received a 2024 Spark Award from the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). The Spark Award...
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Talk to address privacy, civil rights in health care
Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, will discuss privacy and civil rights issues in health care at a Nov. 13...
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Byrne featured in ‘Volcano Worlds’
Watch the full documentary here. Paul Byrne, an associate professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at WashU, was featured in “Volcano Worlds,” a PBS Nova...
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How plants evolved multiple ways to override genetic instructions
Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants multiple ways to override instructions that are coded into their DNA. This...
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Book explores how Great Recession, COVID-19 affected young adult identity...
In her new book, Bronwyn Nichols Lodato, an assistant professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, explores the unique impact that major societal disruptions have on young...
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A high-tech way to track an age-old problem
From her perch high above the Meramec River, undergraduate Margo Crothers eyed the floodwaters warily. As a Pathfinder Fellow, she could remember camping overnight at a site near the river’s edge. Now...
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WashU faculty, alumni lead effort to repair harms caused by systemic racism...
The St. Louis Reparations Commission released its final report last month, outlining St. Louis’ deep history of slavery and systemic discrimination and the continued impact on Black residents. The...
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Seniors Darden, Seiler were Rhodes Scholars finalists
Washington University in St. Louis seniors Elijah Darden and Isaac Seiler were both Rhodes Scholars finalists, one of the world’s highest academic honors. Darden, 22, is majoring in psychological and...
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Understanding the mechanics of regeneration
Duygu Özpolat, an assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, co-authored a study in Nature Communications about the early steps of regeneration in the annelid worm Platynereis. Özpolat...
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‘The Thanksgiving Play’
The cast of “The Thanksgiving Play.” From left: Coco Jones as Logan, Zachary Cohn as Caden, Jacob Elliott as Jaxton and Raquel Elle Brouwer as Alicia. (Photo: Danny Reise/WashU) “We start with this...
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The main events: How scenes from life shape consciousness, build memories
Life is a series of small events: making morning coffee, letting the dog out, opening a laptop, letting the dog back in. Add them all up and you have a full day. Our brains are committed to observing...
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Yang installed as Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics
Li Yang, the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences, poses with his wife and daughters (left); a portrait of the late Albert Gordon Hill; Hill’s grandniece, Lexie Long; Henric...
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McLeod Writing Prize recognizes first-year student research
The College Writing Program recently celebrated the 2024 winners and finalists of the James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize. The 2024 McLeod Writing Prize finalists and College Writing Program...
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Brantmeier to serve on national Fulbright committee
Brantmeier The U.S. Department of State, along with the Institute of International Education, has invited Cindy Brantmeier, in Arts & Sciences at WashU, to serve on the national screening...
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Island biodiversity rides on the wings of birds
You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta...
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Music welcomes STL Symphony, ‘takes over’ art museum
An audience assembles in the Saint Louis Art Museum’s Grigg Gallery earlier this fall. On Dec. 6, more than 150 WashU musicians will perform in spaces throughout the museum as part of its Festive...
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Barch honored by national mental health organizations
Deanna Barch, a leading scholar in the field of cognitive and language deficits in disorders like schizophrenia, recently won two honors from national organizations. Barch is vice dean of research and...
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