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‘Humans of Tyson’ project highlighted at statewide conference

12.1.22 |

Colleen McDermott, a junior environmental analysis major in Arts & Sciences, discussed working with the “Humans of Tyson” project at Tyson Research Center during the recent 2022 Kansas and Missouri Environmental Education Conference.

12.1.22

Voicing politics: How language impacts political opinions

12.1.22 |

In a new book, “Voicing Politics,” Arts & Sciences’ Margit Tavits uncovers the many ways in which linguistic peculiarities of different languages can have meaningful consequences for political attitudes and beliefs around the world.

11.30.22

Wick appointed Dean’s Fellow for Digital Transformation

11.30.22

A semester of songs and stories

11.30.22

Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

11.30.22 |

Using advanced geochemical analyses, a team of scientists, including Michael Frachetti, professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences, have uncovered new answers to decades-old questions about trade of tin throughout Eurasia during the Late Bronze Age.

11.29.22

Defining literacies for life and career

11.28.22

50 years — and change

11.28.22 |

After two years of pivot and patience, three reunion classes — the Classes of ’70, ’71 and ’72 — got together to celebrate 50th reunions at this year’s Commencement.

11.28.22

‘Compton effect’

11.28.22 |

Arthur Holly Compton, WashU’s ninth chancellor, conducted X-ray scattering experiments in 1922 that demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. At the time, the idea that light had both wave and particle properties was not easily accepted. His discovery stimulated the development of quantum mechanics and was recognized with the Nobel Prize in 1927.

11.28.22

Creating the best of what life can offer

11.28.22 |

As founder and CEO of City Winery, a national chain of music venues that offers wine and fine dining, Michael Dorf, AB ’84, BSBA ’84, has made it his mission to provide an experience that will “indulge the senses.”

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