Making the case for WashU
Nearly one year into the job, J.D. Burton, vice chancellor for government relations, gives insight into what it’s like representing WashU in the political sector.
The boys of fall
Three WashU alumni work in the Texas Rangers’ front office, helping the team win its first-ever World Series title.
50 years of legal community service — and counting
Students in the School of Law’s Clinical Education Program, now 50 years old, gain important skills while helping members of the community.
A positive outcome to negative emotions
Arts & Sciences’ Emily Willroth finds those who accept unpleasant feelings, but not the underlying unpleasant situations, experience less anxiety and depression.
Generation gap
In forming public policy, policymakers shouldn’t rely on generational labels or stereotypes, says economist George-Levi Gayle.
Kneeling in prayer and protest
Through the course “The Politics of Play and Protest: Religion and Sports in America,” students use religion and sports to examine American life.
The work will save you
An excerpt from Carl Phillips’ newest book, “My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditation from a Life in Writing.”
How to survive in a digital world
Privacy expert Neil Richards, the Koch Distinguished Professor of Law, says the path to surviving the “Information Revolution” is
through both education and the law.
Engineering a safer future against infectious disease
Quick detection of the COVID-19 virus — in the air and in one’s breath — offers hope in the nearly four-year struggle against the disease and its variants. A collaboration of WashU scientists is leading the way.
Happy medium
First-year Washington University students may have a lot to learn about media literacy in 2023, but so do the rest of us. It starts, says Eileen G’Sell, MFA ’06, with understanding that audience is everything.
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