Brown School

The University Archives recently acquired the papers of Jack Arnett Kirkland, an associate professor in the Brown School at WashU and an internationally known scholar who writes, lectures and consults on the African American family and social and economic development.

A group-based curriculum called Journey of Life — delivered over 12 sessions in the Kiryandongo refugee settlement in Uganda — led to improvements in mental health, social support, parental warmth and attitudes around violence against children, finds a new study from the Brown School.

The Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the Brown School will co-lead an $880,840 three-year grant project from the U.S. Department of Justice to bolster training and support systems for Native American communities.

Dorian E. Traube, an expert on early childhood development, was installed as the Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis during a recent ceremony in Brown Hall.

In her work with local organizations to promote health and wellness in the St. Louis region, Diana Parra Perez sees the power of solidarity.

Each year, the Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award recognizes select members of the WashU community who show exemplary commitment to service and engagement within the St. Louis area.  

Chance and luck play a far bigger role in our lives than any of us know, argues Washington University in St. Louis Professor Mark Rank in his new book, “The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us.”

As universities around the world strive to cultivate diverse and equitable communities, a recent study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis highlights the necessity of recognizing age as a fundamental dimension of diversity.

Kazakhstan has launched a national Child Development Account policy informed by research from the Brown School’s Center for Social Development. The development opens the door on a policy structure for channeling natural-resource wealth to invest in children and build human capital.

Corporate investors “buy low and rent high” to populations who can least afford it. A two-year national study, led by Carol Camp Yeakey in Arts & Sciences, will examine the impact that corporate investors have on renters, especially marginalized communities of color, in St. Louis, Cincinnati and Atlanta.