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Meet the Summer Humanities Institute

This summer, local high school students studied with WashU faculty to see how humanities can change the social, political, and environmental landscape.

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Arts & Humanities, Profiles

The Exit Interview: Linda Nicholson

After a remarkable 45-year career, Linda Nicholson, the Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of History, is retiring. She reflects on her time at WashU, the growth of women’s studies, and what she hopes to do next.

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Social Sciences, Research

Rallying point

In 2015, Washington University re-established the Department of Sociology in Arts & Sciences. Concentrating on the origins and impacts of inequality, faculty and students are investigating some of the nation’s most critical and urgent social challenges.

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Arts & Sciences in the News:

Leggy lizards don’t survive the storm

Hannah McCall named 2018 Florence Moog Scholar

Unless we spot changes, most life experiences are fabricated from memories

Warming alters predator-prey interactions in the Arctic

Demon in the details of quantum thermodynamics

The Many Lives of Michelangelo

Researchers engineer bacteria that create fertilizer out of thin air

VIP neurons hold master key to jet lag response

Salas wins Loeb Classical Library fellowship

WashU Expert: Trump’s Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade

A place of belonging

Out of the ordinary

History on display: The Southwick Broadside

Sorry Virginia, U.S. history isn’t all about you

Bedrock in West Antarctica rising at surprisingly rapid rate

Barch receives $3.5 million for research on brain, mental illness

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The Many Lives of Michelangelo

Art historian William Wallace shares the story of how an extremely rare document discovered in WashU's own library provides a window into Michelangelo's life and art.

History on display: The Southwick Broadside

This Fourth of July, visitors to Washington University's Olin Library will have the chance to see a rare piece of history - an early copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the Southwick Broadside.

Saint Peter, according to Mark

The apostle Peter was a leader and role model in early Christianity - or was he? According to Lance Jenott, a lecturer of classics and religious studies, how we understand Peter depends on who is telling the story.

news and events from Arts & Sciences / WashU

Improving nuclear detection with new chip power

A cross-disciplinary team of chemists and physicists from...

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Stark awarded a 2018 Barlow Commission

Christopher Stark, assistant professor of music in Arts...

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A path to diversity in neuroscience

When Washington University in St. Louis student Sneha...

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Career & PostGraduate Advising

Saying Farewell to WashU18

With graduation just around the corner, some familiar faces wanted to say congratulations and share their advice and best wishes for the graduates. Congratulations, #WashU18, from all of us in Arts & Sciences!

Geoff Childs discusses his research

Geoff Childs in the Department of Anthropology uses anthropological demography to explore what happens to a community when the majority of young people move out for education.

Mariel Ehrlich

Getting Lost—and Found—in Peru

Mariel Ehrlich, a junior who is double majoring in sociology and Latin American studies, talks about her time abroad in Lima, Peru and how studying Spanish has changed her perspective on what it means to be a global citizen.

The Monster of

Who is the real monster?

Two hundred years after its publication, “Frankenstein” remains a powerful metaphor for the dangers of science unchecked by social responsibility. Corinna Treitel discusses in this video “Frankenstein’s” continued power to challenge and inform.

The secret lives of plants

Elizabeth Haswell wants to change the way that people think about plants. What do scientists know about how plants sense their environment, and what remains a mystery? The answers may surprise you.

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Find your path, discover your major

In honor of Major-Minor Welcome Week on Feb. 12-16, four students share their sometimes simple and sometimes meandering journeys to find their majors.

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Q&A with Andrew Butler

Andrew Butler, associate professor of education and of psychological and brain sciences, sits down with the Ampersand as part of our series featuring faculty that joined Arts & Sciences this academic year.

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Seniors Camille Borders and Jasmine Brown named Rhodes Scholars

ArtSci seniors Camille Borders and Jasmine Brown have been selected as Rhodes Scholars. The fellow Ervin Scholars are also sorority sisters and good friends.

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