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Frankenstein 200 years later

4.6.18 |

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 |

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 |

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

4.5.18

Breakfast with Ovid

4.5.18 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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.

3.28.18

WashU Spaces: Keith Hengen

3.28.18 |

Keith Hengen, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, collects more than 20 terabytes of data a day. Through big data, new technology and good coffee, Hengen has set out to discover how systems of neurons interact. And, in doing so, he created a new sort of workspace that is both functional and fun.

3.27.18

Why Movie History Matters: David Bordwell and Film Studies, Yesterday and Today

3.27.18 |

Film studies scholar Colin Burnett traces the recent trajectory of film studies as an academic discipline in the seminal writings of David Bordwell and finds an exemplar for humanists of all stripes: an open-minded scholar eager to follow a question where it leads him.

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