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Six Tips on cross-cultural communication
Communicating well across different cultures, backgrounds and experiences is an important skill. Here, experts from across campus give tips on how to navigate these sometimes fraught conversations....
View ArticleLegumes are fancy
Because plants can’t get up and run away, they’ve had to be clever instead. They are the chemists of the living world, producing hundreds of thousands of small molecules that they use as sunscreens, to...
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Two recent graduates named Yenching Scholars
Two graduates of the Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2017 — Carl Stanley Hooks and Kenneth Sng — have been named Yenching Scholars at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing....
View ArticleFat makes cells fat
In his classic comedy routine, “A Place for your Stuff,” George Carlin argues that the whole point of life is to find an appropriately sized space for the things you own. What holds for people is also...
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Keep your distance
If aliens sent an exploratory mission to Earth, one of the first things they’d notice — after the fluffy white clouds and blue oceans of our water world — would be the way vegetation grades from...
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Patti receives 2017 Agilent Early Career Professor Award
Gary Patti, of Arts & Sciences, received a 2017 Agilent Early Career Professor Award, given to those with “outstanding potential for future research.” (Photo: James Byard/Washington University)...
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Glass is weirder than you think
We learn in school that matter comes in three states: solid, liquid and gas. A bored and clever student (we’ve all met one) then sometimes asks whether glass is a solid or a liquid. The student has a...
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Graduate student wins Prairie Schooner writing award
Araghi Ali Taheri Araghi, a Washington University in St. Louis PhD student in comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, has received Prairie Schooner’s Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in...
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The other total eclipse
Astronomers preparing to catch the occultation of a Kuiper Belt Object that the New Horizons spacecraft will fly by on New Year’s Day 2019. This photo was taken during the last opportunity this summer...
View ArticleKlein named vice provost and associate dean for graduate education
Robyn S. Klein, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist recognized internationally for her work on the brain’s immune system, has been named vice provost and associate dean for graduate education for the...
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Toddlers begin learning rules of reading, writing at very early age
Even the proudest of parents may struggle to find some semblance of meaning behind the seemingly random mish-mash of letters that often emerge from a toddler’s first scribbled and scrawled attempts at...
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Do babies know what we like?
Behind the chubby cheeks and bright eyes of babies as young as 8 months lies the smoothly whirring mind of a social statistician, logging our every move and making odds on what a person is most likely...
View ArticleTesting begins for student-created app to aid Alzheimer’s diagnosis
In the hectic, tightly scheduled day at a memory clinic, doctors set aside blocks of time to meet with new patients suspected of having dementia. But much of that time is taken up gathering information...
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AI Genomics Hackathon champions include engineering student
Ben Hsu, Nandita Damaraju, Jo Varshney and Teng Gao (Photo courtesy of Jo Varshney) Brett Teng Gao, an incoming senior at Washington University in St. Louis, recently was part of a team that won the...
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Moore delivers paper on music in ancient Rome
Moore Timothy Moore, the John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Classics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University...
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Neurogenetics for all
On Aug. 1, the National Science Foundation announced 17 Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) awards for projects that will yield innovative ways to tackle the mysteries of the brain. A...
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Graduate student wins fellowship, poem gets notice
Coleman “Too Far North,” a poem written by Aaron Coleman, a Washington University in St. Louis PhD candidate in comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, was published in the July 9 issue of New...
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Tate to receive Inspiring Leaders in STEM Award
Tate William F. Tate, dean of the Graduate School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the 2017 Inspiring Leaders in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the largest and...
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Chen presents lecture at the University of Hong Kong
Chen Letty Chen, associate professor of modern Chinese language and literature in Arts & Sciences, delivered a lecture titled “Technology of Memory: How We Remember and How We Forget” in late June...
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University College launches tuition assistance program for surrounding...
University College offers some 50 degree and certificate programs. Full-time employees of St. Louis, Clayton and University City and their school districts now may attend University College for half...
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