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Investigative journalist casts critical eye on industry influence, pesticide...
Investigative journalist Carey Gillam will deliver the first talk of the fall 2019 Agri-Food Workshop lecture series, “Monsanto Trials and Monsanto Papers,” casting a critical eye on industry influence...
View ArticleStudent speaker Chibueze Agwu’s address to the Class of 2023
Good evening to the distinguished Class of 2023, parents, grandparents, guardians, siblings, faculty and the entire WashU community. And can I get a quick shout out from my Giraffes. Lee Beau where are...
View ArticleObituary: Keshav Sanghani, student in Arts & Sciences, 19
Keshav Sanghani, a rising sophomore in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died June 30, 2019. He was 19. Sanghani, of Willowbrook, Ill., was an accomplished student who was...
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Mosquitoes push northern limits with time-capsule eggs to survive winters
When the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) arrived in the United States in the 1980s, it took the invasive blood-sucker only one year to spread from Houston to St. Louis. New research from...
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Big brains or big guts: Choose one
Big brains can help an animal mount quick, flexible behavioral responses to frequent or unexpected environmental changes. But some birds just don’t need ’em. A global study comparing 2,062 birds finds...
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Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies...
The Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM) has been established at Washington University in St. Louis, thanks to a $500,559 National Science Foundation (NSF)...
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Time to retire the ‘pristine myth’ of climate change
A new, global synthesis of regional archaeological knowledge on land-use changes over the past 10,000 years reveals that humans have reshaped landscapes, ecosystems and potentially climate over...
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Recognizing contributions to Arts & Sciences
Receiving awards from Dean Barbara A. Schaal (center) are (from left) Rachel Dunaway, Henry S. Webber, Robert Chien and Sue McKinney. Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recently...
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Environmental racism in St. Louis
Black St. Louisans are exposed to considerably greater environmental risks than white residents, contributing to stark racial disparities regarding health, economic burdens and quality of life, finds a...
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Ancient DNA study tracks formation of populations across Central Asia
For some, it is written in artifacts. For others, truth can be found in cool, hard genetic code. Both kinds of data factor into an ambitious new study that reports genome-wide DNA information from 523...
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Arts & Sciences dean search committee appointed
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and Interim Provost Marion G. Crain, the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law at the School of Law, have appointed a 16-member committee to identify candidates for the...
View ArticleTEDx WashU Max Klapow
Max Klapow is a William H. Danforth Scholar and research assistant in the Diversity Sciences Lab. The Class of 2021 Arts & Sciences student presented at TEDxWUSTL about radical empathy in April...
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First Person: What it’s like to be a lie spotter
Pamela Meyer, BA ’80, is founder and CEO of Calibrate, a corporate training company that specializes in deception detection. She is author of the 2010 book Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect...
View ArticleTransYouth Project: Building bridges of acceptance
During her undergraduate years at Washington University, Kristina Olson, BA ’03, wanted to better understand the origins of prejudice, so she double-majored in psychology and African and African...
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Bookshelf: The motherhood challenge
Caitlyn Collins, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving Caitlyn Collins has made a lot of mothers cry....
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Coursework: Recipes for respect
Rafia Zafar’s latest book looks at African-American foodways. If you read Gone With the Wind or Uncle Tom’s Cabin, popular but inaccurate depictions of life in the American South during slavery, you’ll...
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Nowak, collaborators win Breakthrough Prize for black hole image
Michael Nowak, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration that was awarded the 2020...
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Halting spread of HIV in Midwest is aim of new network
The battle against HIV increasingly looks winnable, and Washington University in St. Louis is helping lead the charge. Rupa Patel, MD, an assistant professor of medicine, has received a grant for $3.9...
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Faculty fellows to lead key areas in provost’s office
Carpenter, Joe and Maffly-Kipp Three members of the Washington University in St. Louis faculty have been appointed to serve as faculty fellows in the Office of the Provost, according to Interim...
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Hiding in plain sight
Early rice growers unwittingly gave barnyard grass a big hand, helping to give root to a rice imitator that is now considered one of the world’s worst agricultural weeds. New research from Zhejiang...
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