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Return to the field

After two years of delays and restrictions due to the pandemic, graduate students are once again trekking to field sites around the world for their dissertation research. Archaeologists Bridget Bey and Melissa Ritchey share their projects and perspectives.

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Campus & Community

Arts & Sciences shares building project updates, names architect

Selection of the firm that will lead the building’s design follows other key advances in the project’s planning and programming phases.

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Arts & Sciences in the News:

One researcher’s artifact is another’s result

Obituary: Wayne T. Hanebrink, former associate dean, 83

Twelve Arts & Sciences alumni earn Fulbright awards

Changing climate, shifting rivers

New publishing concentration introduced for English major

Science research roundup: June 2022

From algae to the EPA: a PhD graduate’s journey to the federal government

Radin wins Olympus Image of the Year award for the region of Americas

Jane Eyre in German lands

Viewing the world through partisan-tinted glasses

New course explores craft cultures in East Asia

Gibson and Nelson, PhD ’14, win C. Herman Pritchett Book Award for “Judging Inequality”

Barch named next vice dean of research in Arts & Sciences

Interlocking rings unlock new material properties

Kieval elected to the American Academy of Jewish Research

The exit interview: Vice Dean William Tolman

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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Spring 2022 issue

The Ampersand magazine shares stories of incredible people, research, and ideas in Arts & Sciences. The current issue features faculty perspectives on the beauty and power of disorder, the story behind the recently launched strategic plan, an alumnus who helped his family escape Afghanistan, and more. 

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news and events from Arts & Sciences / WashU

Henriksen wins Office of Naval Research grant

Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics in Arts...

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Atkinson, Wingfield receive faculty achievement awards

John Atkinson and Adia Harvey Wingfield will receive...

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Winning an unconventional pageant

Shortly after graduation, Tiffany Yao, BFA ’19, took an...

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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.

AAAS names seven Arts & Sciences faculty as 2021 fellows

Seven faculty members in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis are among 564 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

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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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It’s not what you say, it's 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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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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