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'Does compassion exist?'

PAD presents Wallace Shawn’s ‘Aunt Dan and Lemon’ April 13-22

4.10.18 | Humanities, Faculty, Campus & Community

News is for fools. Kindness is a lie. Killing, to our animal nature, is simply enjoyable. Wallace Shawn’s “Aunt Dan and Lemon,” which the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will stage April 13-22, explores the fragility of civilized society, and how easily cultured masks slip before the face of power.

4.9.18

Heil awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Grant will support a book devoted to relationship between physics and the world as we see it

4.9.18 | Faculty, Awards & Notables, A&S in the News

John Heil, a professor of philosophy in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was selected for the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship based on his prior achievement and exceptional promise.

4.6.18

Frankenstein 200 years later

4.6.18 | Humanities, Faculty

What can we learn from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein 200 years after it was published? A lot, insofar as the book’s central conflicts — between science and ethics, society and the other — still resonate today.

4.6.18

Sustaining life on earth

In the midst of what scientists consider to be a sixth mass extinction event, Washington University is joining forces with the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Saint Louis Zoo to collaborate on life-saving research and conservation efforts.

4.6.18 | Faculty, Natural Sciences & Math, Profiles

4.6.18

Six Tips: How to be more fair and ethical

Washington University experts offer tips on how to make more ethical decisions.

4.6.18 | Faculty, Campus & Community

Washington University experts offer tips on how to make better and more ethical decisions.

4.5.18

Breakfast with Ovid

4.5.18 | Humanities, Faculty, Alumni

John and Penelope Biggs met in Latin class. Six decades later, their love for classics is still going strong. In April, leading scholars from around the country will present their work as part of the Biggs Family Residency Reunion.

4.2.18

The Supermarket of Israeli Literature: A Festschrift

4.2.18 | Faculty

The 2017 Man Booker International Prize — which celebrates the finest translated fiction from around the world — shortlisted two Israeli works, Amos Oz’s Judas and David Grossman’s A Horse Walks Into A Bar, which ultimately won the award. Israeli literature, now 70 years in the making, has come into its own, writes scholar Nancy Berg.

3.30.18

Arvidson to receive Weidenbaum Center Award for Excellence

3.30.18 | Faculty, Awards & Notables

Raymond E. Arvidson, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the Weidenbaum Center Award for Excellence Medal. The award will be given at a ceremony held during the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy annual dinner April 2. This award honors individuals who have made major contributions to both scholarship and public service.

3.29.18

Young Hispanic men may face greatest risk from police shootings, study finds

3.29.18 | Faculty, Research

The police shooting earlier this month of Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s Sacramento backyard has renewed protests over officer-involved deaths of unarmed black men, but research led by Washington University in St. Louis suggests young Hispanic men may face an even greater risk of being killed by police, especially in mixed-income neighborhoods with large Latino populations.

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