Werner Ploberger
Department of Economics
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Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Jeffrey M. Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $250,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study event cognition “in the wild.” This project will take the research into the world, where people actually experience events. Key to the research is “Unforgettable,” an infrastructure developed over the past decade by collaborator Simon Dennis, of the University of Melbourne, which helps people enrich and better understand their own memories while collecting data for a scientific exploration of event comprehension and memory.
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Three Questions with Adia Harvey Wingfield
Adia Harvey Wingfield, professor of sociology, studies the intersection of race, work and sociology. In addition to writing regularly about such matters for The Atlantic, she also has written numerous scholarly articles and books, including No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Mens Work.
Meet our new faculty: Humanities
This fall, 17 new researchers and instructors join 11 humanities departments and programs in Arts & Sciences.
WashU faculty contribute to ‘Object Lessons’ book series
What can tacos or tubes of lipstick teach us about history and culture? Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Eileen G’Sell explore the surprising answers in new editions of the popular book series about the secret lives of everyday objects.