When using pyrite to understand Earth’s ocean and atmosphere: Think local, not global
Scientists have long used information from sediments at the bottom of the ocean to reconstruct conditions in oceans of the past. But a new study from David Fike, professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, raises concerns about a common use of pyrite for this purpose.
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Student explains eco-art class, online exhibition
Sam Fox School student Jarea Fang writes about “Eco-Art,” an online student exhibition that explores the intersection between art, ecology and ethics.
9to5 Strikes at a Missing Piece of Feminist History
Eileen G’Sell reviews the documentary film “9to5: The Story of a Movement” in this piece in Hyperallergic.
Chancellor writes about higher education’s role
Approximately one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin reflects on his blog about the role of higher education institutions and the intrinsic value of the humanities.
Videos
Q&A with Christine Sun Kim
With her spare line and sly, deadpan humor, Christine Sun Kim investigates sound as a physical and social phenomenon while also interrogating the cultural hierarchies in which sound operates. In her new mural for Washington University’s Kemper Art Museum, the artist and Deaf activist highlights how the weight of history and everyday experiences intertwine to affect the lives of Deaf people.
Bookshelf
‘Uncontrollable Blackness’
In his new book, “Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York,” historian Douglas Flowe at Washington University in St. Louis investigates the meanings of crime, violence and masculinity in the lives of those facing economic isolation, segregation and overt racial attack.