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Playing on stereotypes
Members of the Association of Black Students protest at Washington University in 1968. (Washington University Archives) The election of Donald Trump has shocked many. But for Adia Harvey Wingfield,...
View ArticleReligious voters may have seen Trump as lesser of two evils
Donald Trump’s surprising success with Mormon, Catholic and evangelical Christian voters can best be explained by the deep distrust that these groups have for Hillary Rodham Clinton, suggests R. Marie...
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Hayes helps shape national helium policy
Many researchers are suffering from the rising costs of liquid helium and its unreliable availability. To help address these issues, the American Physical Society, in partnership with the Materials...
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‘An irrefutable thing’
“I wonder if medicine is less prone to save an unexamined life.” —Unlucky Nick How do we define ourselves? What traits do we admire, what talents do we cultivate? And what happens if we pick the wrong...
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Gravitational waves the topic of 2016 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture
Gabriela González, the spokesperson for the science collaboration that detected gravitational waves in spacetime passing over Earth for the first time this year, will deliver the ninth annual Robert...
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Trump victory shows racial justice movement needs better storytellers
If Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president accomplishes nothing else, it has been remarkably successful in fostering public discourse about how we as a people think and talk about race in...
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Solving the problem
In school, Fernando Azpeitia Tellez gravitated to math because it “was a language I could understand.” “I came to the United States (from Mexico) when I was 10, so history and science were difficult,”...
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Ambidextrous enzyme
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis isolated an enzyme that controls the levels of two plant hormones simultaneously, linking the molecular pathways for growth and defense. Similar to...
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‘A rite of passage’
The world is hanging upside down. The stage floats like a cloud. The audience perches on the ceiling. Or perhaps that is only the dancer’s perspective. In “Tribal Dreams,” choreographer Cecil Slaughter...
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Scanning Madagascar
Madagascar, the big island off the east coast of Africa with the lemurs and baobabs, is thought to be sitting in the middle of an old tectonic plate, and so, by the rules of plate tectonics, should be...
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Two alumni named Rhodes finalists
Croswell delivered the student address at Convocation in 2014. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) Two Washington University in St. Louis graduates were finalists for a Rhodes Scholarship, one...
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Republican push for REINS Act could backfire, says congressional expert
Conservative columnist George Will is encouraging Republicans to have the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act passed through the U.S. Congress and ready for President-elect...
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Washington People: Henry Schvey
Olin Library, the gingko trees and the PAD’s Henry Schvey: Three literary stalwarts of Washington University. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) Henry Schvey is a go-to guy in Arts &...
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Infante nominated for Pushcart Prize
Infante teaches a class in McDonnell Hall. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) Ignacio Infante, associate professor of comparative literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in...
View ArticleCould there be life in Pluto’s syrupy sea?
Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may contain similarly exotic oceans,...
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From debate volunteer to debate insider
By the time Arden Farhi, AB ’07, returned to Washington University for the second 2016 presidential debate, he’d already been following then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the...
View ArticleGerman Academic Exchange Service honors six Washington University students
Six Washington University in St. Louis students received scholarships or internship offers for the 2016-17 academic year from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German national agency...
View ArticleEarly’s ‘The Common Reader’ gets a nod
Gerald Early’s publication, “The Common Reader” — and the people behind it — were the focus of an article by a Dutch graduate student who visited America looking for entrepreneurial journalism ideas...
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Anthropology photo contest winners named
This photo by Aaron Hames depicts a fire-walking festival in Mount Takao, Tokyo, in 2016. (First place, graduate student section) The Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences again held a...
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‘Come Sing With Us’
A Steinway Grand sounds buoyantly across the marble floors of an historic Art Deco theater. A half-dozen performers swayed gently through Gilbert & Sullivan, the lyric both comfort and joyful...
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