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Keep It Moving: Transience, Debility and the Management of Homelessness

1.19.18 |

Public transportation areas have increasingly incorporated principles of “defensive urban architecture.” But such locations have long been part of the infrastructure of homeless services. What is the effect on people who are homeless, inquires Terrance Wooten, when the environment itself is hostile to them?

1.10.18

McDaniel recognized for prospective memory research

1.10.18 |

Mark McDaniel, professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is co-recipient of a 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Conference of Prospective Memory.

1.3.18

Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?

1.3.18 |

Using satellite imaging and drone reconnaissance, archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis have discovered an ancient irrigation system that allowed a farming community in northwestern China to raise livestock and cultivate crops in one of the world’s driest desert climates.

12.28.17

For a healthier 2018, find purpose in life

12.20.17

Fritz, Mueller receive Southeastern Archaeological Conference award

12.20.17 |

Gayle Fritz, professor of archaeology, and Natalie Mueller, a 2017 doctoral graduate, both of the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, have received the Patty Jo Watson Award for the year’s best article or book chapter on Southeastern archaeology.

12.13.17

Lester honored for best paper in psychological anthropology

11.30.17

Getting Lost—and Found—in Peru

11.16.17

Ancient barley took high road to China, changed to summer crop in Tibet

11.16.17 |

First domesticated 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, wheat and barley took vastly different routes to China, with barley switching from a winter to both winter and summer crop during a thousand-year detour along the southern Tibetan Plateau, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Keep It Moving: Transience, Debility and the Management of Homelessness

McDaniel recognized for prospective memory research

Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?

For a healthier 2018, find purpose in life

Fritz, Mueller receive Southeastern Archaeological Conference award

Lester honored for best paper in psychological anthropology

Getting Lost—and Found—in Peru

Ancient barley took high road to China, changed to summer crop in Tibet

Would you be my neighbor?

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