First artificial scaffolds for studying plant cell growth
Ryan Calcutt and Ram Dixit in Arts & Sciences and their collaborators created the first artificial scaffolds that can support the growth of individual plant cells — a discovery that will make it possible to study how forces such as gravity affect the way that plant cells form and grow.
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Ali explores Muslim women’s spiritual development
Tazeen Ali, a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, discusses a new book project focused on the Women’s Mosque of America, founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, and the platform it has given to Muslim women.
How InPrint, free scientific editing service at WashU, is succeeding
InPrint, a trainee-run scientific communication network that provides free editing, design and presentation consulting to the WashU community, in a Nature Portfolio Bioengineering Community post.
Maffly-Kipp discusses Mormonism in West Africa
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, discusses how Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pamphlets and other materials began circulating in West Africa many years before official missionary work began, as part of a lecture series on Mormon history.
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Seeing exponential growth for what it is
Jeffrey M. Zacks, professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, and of radiology at the School of Medicine, explains why we have such a difficult time with exponential growth and how to make its presentation easier to understand.
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What we don’t understand about poverty in America
“Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty,” a new book by Mark Rank, a leading academic expert on poverty at Washington University in St. Louis, explores the idealized image of American society.