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Obituary: Richard Yang, professor emeritus, 93
Richard Yang, professor emeritus of East Asian languages and cultures in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He was 93. Yang...
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Early wins Tradition of Literary Excellence Award
Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the 2018 Tradition of Literary Excellence Award. Early Created in...
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Princeton scholar to discuss economics of opioid crisis Nov. 12
Alan Krueger, a Princeton University economist, will discuss the estimated half-trillion-dollar cost of the nation’s opioid crisis in the inaugural Murray Weidenbaum Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. Monday,...
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Washington People: Bob Criss
Bob Criss wants you to get your feet wet. Criss has championed the Mississippi, Missouri and Meramec rivers, among others, in more than 25 years of work in earth and planetary sciences at Washington...
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Jorge Mario Jáuregui to discuss informal cities
Today, more than 1 billion people live in informal cities — a number expected to double by mid-century. It is the most pressing urban design challenge of our time. The Sam Fox School of Design &...
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Obituary: David L. Kirk, professor emeritus of biology, ISP faculty fellow, 84
Kirk David L. Kirk, professor emeritus of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, at Dougherty Ferry Assisted Living in St. Louis after a long...
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‘It’s a team sport’
Thyrsus co-president Grace Haselhorst (at right) congratulates cast and crew following the 24-hour playwriting competition “Day of Shame” Sept. 9. The experimental theater group will present...
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WashU Expert: Voter turnout differs with anger vs. disgust
With an estimated $8.5 billion spent on political ads for the 2018 midterm elections, many Americans relished the arrival of election day simply because it meant an end to the torturous and emotionally...
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Inhabited exoplanets topic of 2018 Walker Distinguished Lecture
David Charbonneau, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, will deliver the annual Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in Whitaker Hall, Room 100, on the Danforth...
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McGlothlin, Walke organize ‘Lessons and Legacies’ conference
McGlothlin (left) and Walke Erin McGlothlin, associate professor of German, and Anika Walke, assistant professor of history, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, served as...
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Replaying the tape of life: Is it possible?
How predictable is evolution? The answer long has been debated by biologists grappling with the extent to which history affects the repeatability of evolution. Losos A review published in the Nov. 9...
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Hengen named 2018 Allen Institute Next Generation Leader
Hengen Keith Hengen, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was selected by the Allen Institute as a 2018 Next Generation Leader. Hengen is one of...
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‘A big, huge, self-destructive mistake’
From left: Madison Lee as Hiro, Zoe Liu as Sophie, Dwayne McCowan as Da’Ran and Dominic Bottom as James. (All photos: Danny Reise/Washington University) Grandma: I sent you a hundred dollars but you...
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WashU Expert: Death of a salesman — Stan Lee
Stan Lee at the April 2012 premiere of “The Avengers” at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theater. (Photo: Shutterstock) “Stan Lee was a man of contradictions: self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating; a great...
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Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior
Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to a first-of-its-kind seismic study that spans...
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New maps hint at how electric fish got their big brains
Helmet-heads of the freshwater fish world, African mormyrid fishes are known for having a brain-to-body size ratio that is similar to humans. But there’s actually a great deal of variation in the size...
View ArticleJustin Phillip Reed wins National Book Award for Poetry
Justin Phillip Reed, a 2015 graduate of the MFA Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry. The award is generally...
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AAAS names 11 Washington University faculty as fellows
Eleven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis — the most in a decade-and-a-half — are among 416 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),...
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‘What is dance?’
“Shadows,” a new work by nationally renowned choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess, will be featured as part of “PastForward,” the 2018 Washington University Dance Theatre concert. (Photos: Jerry...
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How color barrier fell at South’s elite private schools
In 1963, as public school desegregation battles raged across the South, three of the nation’s most prominent black leaders — Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Bond and Ralph Abernathy — quietly sought to...
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