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Women’s Society gives leadership awards, scholarships
The Women’s Society of Washington University announced the winners of the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarships during the group’s annual membership meeting...
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Anthropology students receive Kathleen Cook Award
Anthropology students Ed Henry and Elissa Bullion (right) celebrate the receipt of a departmental service award named for former anthropology administrator Kathleen Clark (center). The Department of...
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Obituary: Gerry Rohde, biology stockroom manager, 55
Rohde Gerry Rohde, stockroom manager and laboratory safety officer in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has died. He was 55. Rohde had worked at...
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Class Acts: The problem solver
Megan Wolf hadn’t even started classes in August of 2014 whenSharon Stahl, then vice chancellor for students, spoke at a preseason meeting of the women’s soccer team, encouraging the new players to get...
View ArticleWashington People: Sarah C.R. Elgin
Nowadays Sarah C.R. “Sally” Elgin would probably be referred to as gifted or talented. But in the 1950s, a really smart girl was obnoxious or a nerd. “I come from a long line of nerds, and it’s not...
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Arts & Sciences presents Distinguished Alumni Awards, Dean’s Medal
Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recognized eight outstanding alumni and supporters of the school during its 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner, held April 25 at the...
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Class Acts: Fighting childhood malnutrition
There is medical term for the condition that Zach Linneman has observed in Malawi, Sierra Leone and India — severe acute malnutrition, or SAM. Linneman uses a different word: starvation. “That’s what...
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Washington University announces 2018-19 Great Artists Series
Nikolai Lugansky is a virtuoso pianist who plays with “plush sound and plenty of impetuosity” (New York Times). Tamara Mumford, the charismatic mezzo-soprano, “has an aristocratic middle range, dusky...
View ArticleNewman Exploration Travel Fund winners announced
Washington University Libraries has awarded the inaugural Newman Exploration Travel Fund (NEXT) scholarships and grants to seven members of the university community. A donation from the Eric P. and...
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Parvulescu wins prestigious fellowship
Anca Parvulescu, professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a Collaborative Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies...
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Obituary: Peter Riesenberg, professor emeritus of history, 92
Riesenberg Peter Riesenberg, professor emeritus of history in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died in his sleep May 14, 2018, in Harpswell, Maine. He was 92. Riesenberg, a...
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Splitting the difference: One person, two minds
Each of them, despite being two thinking things, is one of us — one person. It is an odd sentence to most, but not to Lizzie Schechter, assistant professor of philosophy and...
View ArticleWashU Expert: Remembering Philip Roth
Philip Roth, who died May 22, was among the most influential American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. He also was a playful yet unsparing and often provocative critic of American culture, said...
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Chemist Barnes receives teacher-scholar award
Barnes Alexander Barnes, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been recognized with a 2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award,...
View ArticleAct fast to pay attention
Do you waste time in the morning looking for your keys? Try writing the word “KEYS” on a light switch you use every morning, and you might find them a little quicker. That’s a suggestion based on...
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WashU Expert: The firing of Roseanne Barr
On May 29, ABC cancelled its “Roseanne” revival after an ugly tweet from the show’s eponymous star. In this Q&A, film scholar Gaylyn Studlar, the David May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities...
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Fortune — and nature — favors the bold
A field experiment with anole lizards showed not only that natural selection acts on behavioral traits, but also that selection for behavior can occur simultaneously to selection on other traits, such...
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Flavor of the moment
An example of simulated data modeled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. (Image: Lucas Taylor, CERN) Particle accelerators are powerful devices that use electromagnetic...
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On the origins of agriculture, researchers uncover new clues
The invention of agriculture changed humans and the environment forever, and over thousands of years, the practice originated independently in at least a dozen different places. But why did agriculture...
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Early honored by Royal Vagabonds Foundation
Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was among the honorees at the 2018 Royal Vagabonds Leadership Awards. The...
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