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Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia
Since the beginning of archaeology, researchers have combed the globe searching for evidence of the first domesticated crops. Painstakingly extracting charred bits of barley, wheat, millet and rice...
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Trilogy of events to commemorate history of blacks in America
The year 2019 marks 400 years since the first documented arrival of Africans in the United States. In alignment with a national agenda to recognize the significance of this anniversary, Washington...
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Day of Discovery, Dialogue & Action to focus on dialogues across differences
Manji The Washington University in St. Louis community will come together Feb. 19-20 for the fifth annual Day of Discovery, Dialogue & Action event. This year’s theme is “Dialogues Across...
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Less anesthesia during surgery doesn’t prevent post-op delirium
Many older adults who have major surgery experience postoperative delirium in the days after their operations. Previous research has suggested that closely monitoring the brain during surgery and...
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Understanding tropical rainfall, both past and present
A drop of rainwater that falls on a cassava field in Uganda takes a different path than one that falls 500 miles east in Somalia. Knowing where rain comes from now, and where it might come from under...
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Rogers, Wehner to discuss religion, polarized politics Feb. 12
“Revitalizing Democratic Pluralism” will be the focus as political scholars Melissa Rogers and Peter Wehner take the stage for a public forum on polarized politics at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, in...
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Assembly Series spring lineup focuses on society’s perplexing problems
Everyone from Socrates to Eminem has weighed in on the concept of truth: what it is, whether it exists, how and where to find it, and in this era of bots and big data, whether truth can ever be known....
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Annual contest showcases ‘old friends’: photography and anthropology
PhD candidate Dick Powis’ picture of Senegalese griots — praise singers — won third place in the anthropology department’s annual photo contest. The contest started a decade ago to showcase the amazing...
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Lunar New Year Festival introduces Vietnamese lotus dance
The Lunar New Year Festival returns to Edison Theatre Feb. 8-9. (Video: Tom Malkowicz and James Byard/Washington University) Washington University in St. Louis senior Megan Khu wanted to introduce...
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Trump’s legacy still uncertain, suggest experts on nation’s collective memory
Building toward the climax of his Feb. 5 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump implored the leaders of “the most extraordinary nation in all of history” to consider their legacies at this...
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Parking and Transportation provides updates, alerts for spring
As students, faculty and staff dig in to the spring semester, the Parking and Transportation team at Washington University in St. Louis is sharing plans for the months ahead. Metro town halls Metro...
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Nerve transfer surgery gives hope to children with rare paralyzing illness
At Brandon Noblitt’s first appointment with Washington University surgeon Amy Moore, MD, a year ago, he was barely able to walk, mostly using a wheelchair to get around. Only 6 years old at the time,...
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The unintended consequences of tinkering with online prices
When your online retail platform clears billions of transactions a year, what’s the harm in testing different prices for the same products on a relative handful of your customers? You might find a way...
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Biswas elected to National Academy of Engineering
Pratim Biswas, the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, considered...
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How America’s family-hostile policies are hurting women and children
Stress and exhaustion dominate the lives of working mothers in the United States. And no wonder: Of all western industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks dead last for policies that support working...
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‘The Great Work begins’
Louis Gordon as Prior in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.” (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University) In the fall of 1985, Tony Kushner left New York for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis,...
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From voguing to AfrikFusion
With its quick wit, glamorous poses and elaborate, rapid-fire pantomimes, the dance style known as voguing raises gender performance to an art form. Born in the black and Latino LBGTQ communities of...
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Unmet social needs among Medicaid members lead to stress, chronic conditions
A survey of Medicaid members found that increasing levels of unmet social needs were positively associated with stress, smoking and chronic conditions, according to new research from the Brown School...
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Honest diversity: A Q&A with Irshad Manji
Somewhere along the way, we not only forgot how to talk to those who are on opposite sides of our political and societal views, but we also became afraid to approach each other with difficult...
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University diversity team works to align ‘our values and our reality’
If we believe in diversity, why are we not more diverse? That question vexes Adrienne Davis, vice provost and William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Davis “It’s...
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