Stories
The New Ecology
Combining sophisticated computational modeling with extensive field work, Jon Chase and Tiffany Knight head up ecology research at Washington University. Web exclusives: A Life of Science, Chase and Knight Live the Science (photo gallery)
No Private Matter
Religion and politics can and should be discussed in polite company, says Marie Griffith, new director of the John C. Danforth Center for Religion and Politics. Web exclusives: Further Reading: politics and religion book list, John C. Danforth’s “Religion and Politics” lecture
Submersed in Earth
The inhabitants of Sanyangzhuang ran for their lives when the Yellow River broke its banks 2,000 years ago, leaving behind a remarkably well-preserved slice of everyday life. Today, archaeologists are uncovering China’s rural Pompeii. Web exclusive: T.R. Kidder at Sanyangzhuang (photo gallery)
Microbes: Little Answers to Big Questions
David Fike once wavered between becoming a chef and applying to graduate school. He now studies a kind of “microbial lasagna” in his quest to understand how the ecology of Earth has changed over time. Web exclusives: Student to Teacher: David Fike in the classroom, David Fike in the field (photo gallery), Fike's Favorite Recipe
The Lady Anatomist
With an understanding of the human body few professors of Italian can claim, Rebecca Messbarger examines 18th-century wax model-maker Anna Morandi Manzolini as well as the intertwined histories of science, gender and art that inform her story. Web exclusives: A Detective Tale: Rebecca Messbarger's Search for Anna Morandi Manzolini, Messbarger finds Manzolini (photo gallery)
The Steward of Statistics
Methodologist Andrew Martin makes nice with political scientists and legal scholars as director of the Center for Empirical Research in the Law. Web exclusive: Andrew D. Martin: From kindergartener to department chair in 28.83 years (game-board time line)
Service at the Center
A resume that includes an all-star academic record and a voluminous portfolio of service won Priya Sury a Rhodes scholarship. Web exclusive: Learning to Lead: The Annika Rodriguez Scholars Program
New Perspectives: International Graduate Students
Greater numbers of international doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences are finding their intellectual home away from home in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Web exclusives: Stories of Troubled Times, The Difficult Problem and Soft Edges of Electoral Districting
11 on 11: The Arts & Sciences Class of 2011
The roommate, the search for a major, the discovery of self — these are the rites of passage of our college years. Peruse anecdotes of college life in a compilation of submissions by our 2011 graduates.
