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The latest news and updates from Arts & Sciences

Spring 2018 New Faculty

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.

12.19.17

G’Sell publishes ‘Life After Rugby’ collection

12.14.17

New book by Griffith tackles timely subject

12.14.17 |

In her new book, “Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics” (Basic Books, 2017), Washington University’s R. Marie Griffith offers a compelling history of the religious debates over sex and sexuality that came to dominate American public life.

12.14.17

Student’s pumpkin-white chocolate cookie wins contest

12.14.17 |

Senior Cole Warner makes a killer cookie. Warner’s recipe for pumpkin-white chocolate chip snickerdoodles bested about 80 recipes to win the Judges’ Pick award for the annual St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cookie Contest.

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Spring 2018 New Faculty

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

G’Sell publishes ‘Life After Rugby’ collection

New book by Griffith tackles timely subject

Student’s pumpkin-white chocolate cookie wins contest

Lester honored for best paper in psychological anthropology

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