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WashU physicists launch cosmic ray telescope from Antarctica
A team of Washington University in St. Louis scientists at McMurdo Station, Antarctica successfully launched its SuperTIGER (Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder) instrument, which is used to...
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Survey: Electorate wants candidates, parties to act on climate change
A majority of a sampling of Republicans and Democrats who intend to vote in Presidential primary elections believe there is evidence that the Earth is warming, recognize that humans caused much of the...
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And then there was light
Light provides the energy that plants and other photosynthetic organisms need to grow, which ultimately yields the metabolites that feed all other organisms on the planet. Plants also rely on light...
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New year’s resolution: Wait until spring
Tim Bono offers sound advice about where people go wrong when setting New Year’s resolutions. Wait a few months, said Bono, assistant dean for assessment in Student Affairs and lecturer in...
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Grain traits traced to ‘dark matter’ of rice genome
Domesticated rice has fatter seed grains with higher starch content than its wild rice relatives — the result of many generations of preferential seed sorting and sowing. But even though rice was the...
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‘Lost crops’ could have fed as many as maize
Make some room in the garden, you storied three sisters: the winter squash, climbing beans and the vegetable we know as corn. Grown together, newly examined “lost crops” could have produced enough...
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Chimpanzees more likely to share tools, teach skills when task is complex
Teach a chimpanzee to fish for insects to eat, and you feed her for a lifetime. Teach her a better way to use tools in gathering prey, and you may change the course of evolution. For most wild...
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Switching tracks
Think of a train coming down the tracks to a switch point where it could go either to the right or the left — and it always goes to the right. Photosynthetic organisms have a similar switch point....
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Border walls obstruct legal trade by one-third, ‘divert’ illegal trade
Border walls remain a politically charged topic in the United States and elsewhere around the world. Yet they are far more than an immigration or security issue, finds a new study co-authored by a...
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SuperTIGER on its second prowl — 130,000 feet above Antarctica
The Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (SuperTIGER) instrument is used to study the origin of cosmic rays. (Photo: Wolfgang Zober) A balloon-borne scientific instrument designed to study the...
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Black workers’ status in a company informs perceptions of workplace racial...
Based on 60 in-depth interviews with black medical doctors, nurses and technicians in the health care industry, a new study from Washington University in St. Louis finds that wherever black workers...
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Green in tooth and claw
Go ahead, take a big bite. Hard plant foods may have made up a larger part of early human ancestors’ diet than currently presumed, according to a new experimental study of modern tooth enamel from...
View ArticleCenter for the Humanities faculty fellows named
The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recently announced its 2020-21 cohort of faculty fellows. They are: Patrick Burke, Colin Burnett and Allan...
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Colten, Tran win RAC Artist Fellowships
Photographer Jennifer Colten, senior lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and Paul Tran, a senior poetry fellow in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, both at Washington...
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Berg wins National Jewish Book Award
Nancy Berg, professor of Hebrew language and literature in the Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a National...
View ArticleBoard of Trustees grants faculty appointments, promotions
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Dec. 6, several faculty members were appointed or promoted with tenure, effective Jan. 1 unless otherwise indicated. Appointment with...
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‘I Made This’: ‘Discord’ by senior J.T. Bridges
Songwriter J.T. Bridges (center), who records under the name Tay Altair, produced his new single, “Discord,” at the Harvey Media Center with the help of the student group High Note Music Industry...
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Kool named a ‘Rising Star’ by psychological association
Wouter Kool, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was named a “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science...
View ArticleObituary: Richard ‘Red’ Watson, professor emeritus, 88
Richard A. “Red” Watson, professor emeritus of philosophy in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Sept. 18, 2019, in Wellesley, Mass. He was 88. Watson was a Descartes...
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Patti Smith to receive Washington University International Humanities Prize
Patti Smith performs in Finland in 2007. (Photo: Beni_Köhler) Singer. Writer. Performer. Visual artist. Over the course of her 45-year career, Patti Smith has established herself as one of the most...
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