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A Start for Startups

Steven Collens, AB '93

4.6.18 |

In Chicago, Steven Collens, AB ’93, was instrumental in starting 1871 and MATTER, co-working spaces for tech and health-care startups, respectively.

4.6.18

The Real Deal

Alumni profile Paul Pariser, AB '76

4.6.18 |

Paul Pariser, AB ’76, is reshaping Manhattan with his real estate development and investment firm, Taconic Investment Partners.

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.

4.6.18

Finding Your Fit: Advice from the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences

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.

4.5.18

WashU Welcomes 26th Cohort of Mellon Mays Fellows

4.4.18

Trap, contain and convert

New research gives precise look at underground CO2 abatement process

4.4.18 |

Injecting carbon dioxide deep underground into basalt flows holds promise as an abatement strategy. Now, new research by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on exactly what happens underground during the process, illustrating precisely how effective the volcanic rock could be in trapping and converting CO2 emissions.

4.3.18

Washington People: Rebecca Messbarger

'Why study medical humanities?'

4.3.18 |

The history of medicine is “embedded in the DNA of contemporary medical science and medical practice,” said Rebecca Messbarger, director of medical humanities in Arts & Sciences. In this video, Messbarger discusses the importance of medical humanities as well as her own research into the life and work of Anna Morandi Manzolini, one of the most important anatomists of the European Enlightenment.

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.

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