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Every rose has its thorn — and its tick

2.13.18 |

A new study in Parasites & Vectors finds ticks in urban parks dominated by an invasive rose bush are nearly twice as likely to be infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, as compared to ticks from uninvaded forest fragments. But the trend reverses itself at a broader scale.

2.12.18

On Topic: The history of black studies with Gerald Early

2.12.18 |

Professor Gerald Early recently oversaw African and African-American Studies’ transition from program to full-fledged department at WashU. Here, he talks about the student activism that kick-started black studies programs around the country.

2.12.18

Bearing witness

2.12.18 |

After years of reluctance — and with the help of his journalist daughter, alumna Debbie Bornstein Holinstat — Michael Bornstein shares his remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz in “Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz.”

2.9.18

Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist

2.9.18 |

Eartha Kitt, foreground, and James Dean in a Katherine Dunham dance class in the early 1950s. There's hardly a more recognizable figure in dance, especially African-American modern dance, than Katherine Dunham. In her new book, dance scholar Joanna Dee Das explores Dunham's engagement in the black freedom struggle both onstage and off.

2.8.18

Find your path, discover your major

2.7.18

McCune to be scholar-in-residence at 26th American Men’s Studies conference

2.6.18

Police kill unarmed black Americans more often, especially when they are women, study finds

2.6.18

Large-scale removal of beachgrass leads to new life for endangered coastal lupine

2.6.18 |

A rare, coastal flowering plant known as Tidestrom’s lupine — threatened by native deer mice that can munch up to three-quarters of its unripe fruits under cover of an invasive beachgrass — has been given a new life with the large-scale removal of that grass, a long-term study in the journal Restoration Ecology shows.

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Every rose has its thorn — and its tick

On Topic: The history of black studies with Gerald Early

Bearing witness

Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist

Find your path, discover your major

McCune to be scholar-in-residence at 26th American Men’s Studies conference

Police kill unarmed black Americans more often, especially when they are women, study finds

Large-scale removal of beachgrass leads to new life for endangered coastal lupine

Q&A with Andrew Butler

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