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WashU Spaces: Keith Hengen
Keith Hengen visited labs across America before designing his lab in the Monsanto Building. (Photos: James Byard/Washington University) Have you ever confused a coffee cup for a pen? Or a mango? Or...
View ArticleHow to Think about “Implicit Bias”
John Doris, professor of philosophy and philosophy-neuroscience-psychology When is the last time a stereotype popped into your mind? If you are like most people, the authors included, it happens all...
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Young Hispanic men may face greatest risk from police shootings, study finds
The police shooting earlier this month of Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s Sacramento backyard has renewed protests over officer-involved deaths of unarmed black men, but research led by Washington...
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Sadtler wins NSF CAREER award to develop better catalysts for alternative fuels
Sadtler Bryce Sadtler, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award by...
View ArticleArvidson to receive Weidenbaum Center Award for Excellence
Raymond E. Arvidson, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the Weidenbaum Center Award for Excellence...
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Washington People: Rebecca Messbarger
The history of medicine is “embedded in the DNA of contemporary medical science and medical practice,” said Rebecca Messbarger, a cultural historian of early modern medicine and director of medical...
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Trap, contain and convert
When fossil fuels are burned, carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted. As the gas rises and becomes trapped in the atmosphere, it retains heat as part of a process called the greenhouse effect. The increased...
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Breakfast with Ovid
“There’s a mystique about ancient Greek,” says Emeritus Trustee John H. Biggs. “It uses a different alphabet, the grammar is complex, the sentence structure can be difficult. I fell in love with the...
View ArticleSix Tips: How to be more fair and ethical
Make a more ethical workplace “Organizations can affect ethical behavior through things like rules and monitoring, with incentives for ethical behavior and consequences for unethical behavior. These...
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Quoted: Speakers on campus
Washington University brings excellent speakers to campus every year to share ideas and new perspectives with students and the community. Here are a few of the speakers from the past year. To keep...
View ArticleThe real deal
In 1967, New York City forced nearly 2,000 low-income families out of a 20-acre area on the Lower East Side to make way for the Seward Park Extension Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), a $50 million project...
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Frankenstein 200 years later
This year, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein turns 200. Washington University is celebrating the bicentennial with special events, conferences, film screenings and more. One of the organizers, Corinna...
View ArticleA start for startups
Four years ago, when Steven Collens, AB ’93, thought about the organizational chart for his new company, only one name appeared on it: his own. Collens had plenty of prior experience in government and...
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Battling cancer on two wheels
With a PhD in business, you might not expect Chris Boerner, AB ’93, to be fighting cancer. Yet thanks to his job as head of international markets at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a leading biopharmaceutical...
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Practicing generosity
Jane Hardesty Poole is pictured with her collection of 16th- and 17th-century Japanese Imari porcelain in her Manhattan apartment. (Jennifer Weisbord/WUSTL Photos) When Jane Hardesty Poole, AB ’61, was...
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On an animated journey
During his long career at Pixar Animation Studios, Chris Bernardi, AB ’85, has attended premieres for hit movies like Finding Nemo, Cars and Inside Out. But he was especially thrilled — and more...
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Sustaining life on Earth
Renowned evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos has returned to Washington University to lead a new academic center — the Living Earth Collaborative — to advance the study of biodiversity. The...
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Great Artists Series present Calidore String Quartet April 22
A new job, a new wife, a newfound popular acclaim. It was 1837, and things were going well for Felix Mendelssohn, who had just begun work on his celebrated Opus 44 quartets. The following year, the...
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Heil awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
John Heil has been selected as a 2018 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, making him the eighth Washington University in St. Louis faculty member so honored since...
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‘Does compassion exist?’
“The difference between a perfectly decent person and a monster is just a few thoughts.” – Wallace Shawn News is for fools. Kindness is a lie. Killing, to our animal nature, is simply enjoyable. Lemon...
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