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Reimagining power relations: non-hierarchical social complexity at Poverty Point

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Students attend 27th annual U.N. climate change conference

Since 2011, Washington University students have attended the annual United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) to learn more about the international climate negotiations. In November, they returned from Sharem El Sheik, Egypt, with fresh insight into the global and interdisciplinary complexity of the crisis.

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Faculty, Highlights, Campus & Community

Defining literacies for life and career

As part of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan, faculty fellows lead a ground-up effort to identify life and career literacies embedded in Arts & Sciences courses. Early adopters will soon be invited to participate.

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Faculty, Highlights, Awards & Notables

Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures announces first round of funded projects

Nine multiyear clusters and five yearlong programmatic grants bring together faculty across all seven schools to collaborate on new transdisciplinary research.

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Arts & Sciences in the News:

Navigating layers of empire

Cunningham and Ward share Mellon Foundation grant for project on the virality of racial terror

Sayed Kashua’s novel 'Let it Be Morning' adapted into award-winning film

Drawing from data: a mathematical approach to community representation

Washington University awarded spot in 2023 Beckman Scholars Program

Science research roundup: November and December 2022

New postdoctoral program will train aspiring educational researchers

Counting Fred Astaire’s steps

Ibeh’s novel 'Blessings' acquired by Viking UK

‘Humans of Tyson’ project highlighted at statewide conference

Voicing politics: How language impacts political opinions

Wick appointed Dean’s Fellow for Digital Transformation

Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

‘Compton effect’

50 years — and change

Teaching beyond the call

Featured Podcast:

Climate literacy

In the first episode of “It’s Getting Hot in Here,” a podcast created by the Washington University Climate Change Program, student hosts Lara Briggs, Sejal Rajamani, and Julian McCall are joined by Cassie Power and Amanda Albert to discuss climate literacy.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear The Mask"

Rafia Zafar joins the Poetry for All podcast to discuss "We Wear the Mask" by the great poet and writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Zafar leads us in a discussion of Dunbar's fame and influence while opening up broader themes of African American history and literature

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.

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Fall 2022 issue

Ampersand magazine shares stories of incredible people, research, and ideas in Arts & Sciences. Our latest issue dives into environmental justice, social media bots, the digital mental health revolution, and more. 

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news and events from Arts & Sciences / WashU

Jackrel awarded grant to study proteins linked to ALS

The relentless neurological disease amyotrophic lateral...

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Kashua’s novel adapted into award-winning film

A still from “Let It Be Morning,” based on the...

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Penczykowski wins NSF CAREER award

Rachel Penczykowski, an assistant professor of biology in...

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River flowing over rocks and Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park

A river runs through it

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are using state-of-the-art geospatial technologies to study bedrock river erosion at Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, located about two hours southwest of the Danforth Campus.
Aerial shot of Tyson Research Center in the fall

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.

A semester of songs and stories

From a cappella performances to a class on humor writing, senior Melissa Oberstaedt shares some of her favorite moments from the fall semester.

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The joy of realizing your science job is also a people job

The new chair of the Department of Chemistry envisions a future for the department that’s “all about people.”

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How I chose my major

Sophomore Lorenzo Prila writes about how he followed his instincts and overcame his fear of the unknown on his academic journey. Students in Arts & Sciences are invited to consider their own path to the major at the fall Major-Minor Fair, to be held Oct. 17.

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The icing on the cake: Biologist applies epigenetics to challenges in medicine, agriculture

Xuehua Zhong studies epigenetics — how genes are turned ‘on’ or ‘off’ — and environmental adaptation in plants. A new project, funded by a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, will ultimately enable new applications for medicine and human health.

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