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Faculty, Campus & Community

Digital Transformation Initiative brings new talent to Arts & Sciences

Dean Hu’s initiative infuses new talent and novel approaches across disciplines. In addition to seven hires who arrived earlier this year, 12 scholars plan to join Arts & Sciences in 2022 as part of the initiative.

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Faculty, Social Sciences, Profiles

It’s not just what you say but how you say it

Christopher Lucas addresses long-standing questions in political science using new computational methods and previously untapped datasets – including the sound of political speech.

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Faculty, Awards & Notables

Arts & Sciences faculty among world’s most highly cited researchers

Deanna Barch, Jonathan Losos, Richard Vierstra, and Li Yang, all professors in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, have been named to the Institute for Scientific Information’s list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2021.

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Humanities

Knowing what we know

From knowing your COVID status to identifying pileated woodpeckers, philosopher Matthew McGrath unpacks the interesting questions around how we know what we know about the world.

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Faculty, Humanities, Research

Movement and meaning: Tracing 200 years of change in the human body

In her new book, performance studies scholar Julia Walker shows how modern ways of thinking emerged from five styles of acting.

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Arts & Sciences in the News:

Infante's translation named one of Entropy's best poetry books of 2020–21

How to constitute a nation

Irene Antony on her Society for Neuroscience Award, and the importance of undergraduate mentorship at WashU

Q&A with Promega D.O.O.R.S. scholarship winner Miriam Silberman

Franken-flies: How undergraduate Foltz explores a unique DNA pattern in fruit flies

Using microbes to make carbon-neutral fuel

Daniel Fister received an award from the Society for Ethnomusicology

New program offers undergraduate research experiences in rock deformation

Present at the creation

Three Arts & Sciences faculty win Emerson awards for teaching

More sleep leads to better grades and well-being

Science research roundup: October 2021

Stone receives grant to study perceptions of CRISPR in food production

New database highlights underrepresented scholars of African archaeology

Literary invention in the age of disorder

Flowe wins Littleton-Griswold Prize for “Uncontrollable Blackness”

Featured Podcast:

Influencing democracy

The fifth episode of the American Democracy Lab podcast features author, lecturer, and journalist Anne Nelson discussing the eroding trust in our democracy.

Performing Gold: Fanny Kemble, Modern Banking, and the Evolution of Acting

In this episode of the Hold That Thought podcast, Julia Walker explains the legendary performance of Fanny Kemble and how it connected to historical events and anxieties of the times. Walker's book "Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage" will be published November 2021.

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The Ampersand Magazine

Ampersand Magazine

Fall 2021 issue

The Ampersand magazine shares stories of incredible people, research, and ideas in Arts & Sciences. The inaugural issue features research on aging with purpose, a restorative justice partnership with University City schools, and the alumna in charge of returning samples from Mars.

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news and events from Arts & Sciences / WashU

A river runs through it

Jordan Neeley, a junior studying environmental earth...

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Plutynski wins Lakatos Award

Anya Plutynski, associate professor of philosophy in Arts...

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Walke speaks at World War II conference

Historian Anika Walke, the Georgie W. Lewis Career...

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Our world by degrees: In search of refuge

Researchers look at whether Ozark oases at Tyson Research Center — climate change refugia — could help species persist in spite of rising temperatures.

How I chose my major

Ahead of this year's Major-Minor Fair, sophomore Gracie Hime writes about how she discovered her course of study in Arts & Sciences.

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New book challenges assumptions about state supreme courts

In “Judging Inequality,” James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson account for 26 years of political maneuvering to influence states’ highest courts.

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John Bull's other island

Sophomore Gracie Hime shares her experience in the “Literary Culture of Modern Ireland” Ampersand program.

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Arpita Bose: Finding collaborative solutions in surprising places

In this Q&A, microbiologist Arpita Bose discusses her solutions-oriented approach to big problems from climate change to diversity in STEM.

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