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Political scientists to study populist rhetoric as a threat to democracy

Political scientists Christopher Lucas, Jacob Montgomery, and Margit Tavits recently won funding from the National Science Foundation to study the rise of populist rhetoric on social media and its effects on democracies.

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Faculty, Campus & Community

A first look at signature initiatives

The First Look Fair offered faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to learn about the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan in action.

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Natural Sciences & Math

Fixing the classroom: Welcoming all students into STEM

All across the United States, half of the college students who plan to major in STEM switch fields. As STEM fields struggle to achieve diversity, faculty members are asking: how do we fix the exodus of students from STEM?

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Arts & Sciences in the News:

The sovereignty of joy

The mind of the Holocaust perpetrator

Lawton honored with lifetime achievement award by the British Academy

Celebrating outstanding faculty and staff

The sound of the future, 50 years on

Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics

Cosmochemist Wang to study samples from asteroid Bennu

Lai receives Templeton World Charity Foundation grant to develop anti-bias intervention strategies

Mathematician Stern wins grant to advance scientific computing methods

Boyer to study the emergence and persistence of “wild” religions

Awardees for graduate teaching excellence announced

Meet our new faculty: Humanities

Montaño wins article prize from Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Exploring Mars, 50 years and counting

Meet our new faculty: Social sciences

Arts & Sciences welcomes new students

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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Political scientists to study populist rhetoric as a threat to democracy

Washington University in St. Louis political scientists ...

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Greenberg recognized for work straddling race, religion

Maxwell Greenberg, a postdoctoral research fellow in the...

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Faculty take part in Geospatial Institute event

The Taylor Geospatial Institute is set to host its...

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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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