The Danforth Center’s director goes into moral combat
R. Marie Griffith’s new book analyzes how, and why, “sex divided American Christians and fractured American politics.”
Frontrunners
Six tips: Networking for professional success
Experts across campus offer advice about how to build your professional network and connect better with colleagues
Quoted: Faculty Experts
Quotes faculty experts provided to various news outlets on a variety of topics including the Zika virus, gay olympians and nepotism in the Trump administration.
Frankenstein 200 years later
What can we learn from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein 200 years after it was published? A lot, insofar as the book’s central conflicts — between science and ethics, society and the other — still resonate today.
Quoted: Speakers on campus
Washington University brings excellent speakers to campus every year to share ideas and new perspectives with students and the community. Here are a few of the speakers from the past year.
Six Tips: How to be more fair and ethical
Washington University experts offer tips on how to make better and more ethical decisions.
On Topic: The history of black studies with Gerald Early
Professor Gerald Early recently oversaw African and African-American Studies’ transition from program to full-fledged department at WashU. Here, he talks about the student activism that kick-started black studies programs around the country.
Three questions with Dean Barbara Schaal on why science matters
As past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, Schaal often advocates for scientific funding. Here, she explains why science is a good investment.
Must-reads
On topics from Eisenhower to atheists, here are the latest faculty and alumni books that are sure to provoke, delight and enlighten.
Six tips on adopting healthy behaviors
Faculty at the Envolve Center for Health Behavior Change, a collaboration among Washington University, Duke University and Centene Corp., share what it takes to make bad habits into good ones.