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Frog love and the decoy effect

2.13.18

Murch selected as 2018 Cottrell Scholar

2.13.18 |

Kater Murch, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a 2018 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

2.13.18

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

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