News Clips

In this episode of the “Show Me the Science” podcast, learn about efforts in St. Louis and Kenya to identify and treat young people at risk for schizophrenia and other serious conditions. The international study’s goal is to improve early diagnosis and treatment.

Mark Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare

Eric McDade, associate professor of neurology

Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law

Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society, as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna. A new book by Elizabeth Bernhardt in Arts & Sciences explores both her life story and misogynistic legends about the supposed destruction of Bologna and the Bentivoglio family.

The Nazi context differed significantly from Renaissance Italy’s: There were no negotiations or exceptions, not even for large payments. But the mockery by children, the loss of status, and the shame remained, writes Flora Cassen.

Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor of medicine

In an opinion piece, James Wertsch, the David R. Francis Distinguished Professor and an expert on Russia, discusses Vladimir Putin’s incessant use of false national narratives to justify its invasion of Ukraine.

Matthew Austin, postdoctoral research associated in biology