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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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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:

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”

The Spanish conquest of Mexico as viewed through a Jewish lens

Van Engen wins the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for “City on a Hill”

Barnes and Loomis win Packard Foundation grant for increasing diversity in STEM

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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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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

Prenatal, early-life influences on child brain development focus of new study

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in...

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Mark S. Weil, emeritus professor of art history, 82

Mark S. Weil, the E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus for...

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Wild turkeys among us

Missouri’s wild turkeys might live closer than you think...

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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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