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Education collaborative bridges gaps between local researchers and teachers

Education department chair Andrew Butler discusses the new St. Louis School Research-Practice Collaborative and the importance of researchers partnering with practitioners to address critical challenges faced by schools.

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Faculty, Humanities

Divining Enlightenment art and science

In this Q&A, Tili Boon Cuillé describes the relationships she has discovered between Enlightenment philosophy and divination, and how renewed coherence between the arts and sciences can rescue both past and present from modern disenchantment.

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Humanities

Theater in augmented reality: Technology bridges audience and stage

Elizabeth Hunter’s productions use video games and augmented reality headsets to place audience members in the perspective of protagonists.

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Faculty, Research, Magazine

Disorder: A study in five parts

Volumes of ink, hordes of data, and entire careers have been devoted to defining order within the world. But what can order’s antithesis tell us? From emerging mass cultures to quantum computing, five faculty members explore the meaning of disorder – and what we can gain by harnessing its beauty and power.

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Social Sciences, Research, Magazine

What big data reveals about modern-day housing segregation

In the Neighborhood Branding Project, Ariela Schachter combs through Craigslist ads to uncover how the online rental market reflects and intensifies inequality along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines.

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Alumni, Magazine

The interpretation of risk

Fahim Masoud, AB ’13, who served as an interpreter for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, reflects on how WashU helped shape his identity.

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Arts & Sciences in the News:

Carrying the banner: Meet the 2022 student marshals

Dance as community development

Making campus a home

Chemistry recruits new faculty, 'Rising Star' department chair

Asteroid samples offer insights into solar system evolution

Hayes and Acree appointed to leadership roles in support of graduate education

Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology released

Research, revise, repeat: Training the academy’s next scholars

Reeves looks forward to Weidenbaum Center’s next chapter

Science research roundup: April 2022

Arts & Sciences announces first cohort of SPEED grant recipients

Asim to read from "Boyz n the Void" May 10

Dev to study mysterious particles at Fermilab

Unique samples or just super weird?

Real estate and the hidden history of the U.S. AIDS epidemic

A better approach to career and life preparation

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

Stark wins American Academy in Rome fellowship

Christopher Stark, associate professor of composition and...

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Student speakers to honor spirit of Class of 2022

Commencement student speakers Bryanna Brown, of Atlanta,...

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When more complex is simpler

Microbial communities shape our health and the health of...

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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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