Our people are extraordinary.
Arts & Sciences has over 1,000 faculty and staff who utilize their diverse expertise in the pursuit of research breakthroughs, gaining a deeper understanding of the world's most pressing issues and serving as mentors of the next generation.
select honors from our faculty
search for faculty:
Gerald Early
African and African-American Studies
Lauren Eldridge Stewart
Music
Rowhea Elmesky
Education
Ted Enamorado
Political Science
Chris A. Eng
English
Tammy English
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Lee Epstein
Matt Erlin
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Manel Errando
Physics
Laura Escobar Vega
Mathematics
Ekrem M. Esmer
René Esparza
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Zachariah Ezer
Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Taylor Carlson, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Social Science Research Council Social Data Research Fellowship to study the extent to which user-generated content (i.e. comments) on social media platforms distorts information reported by mainstream news outlets. The fellowship comes with a $50,000 award.
See what our faculty are working on now
More from The Ampersand
Could convection in the crust explain Venus’s many volcanoes?
New calculations by Arts & Sciences researchers suggest surprising geology beneath Venus’s surface.
Decades-long quest leads to new antibiotic compounds
A multidisciplinary team led by WashU chemists repurposed an antimalarial drug in the fight against antibiotic resistance.