Humanities & Society

Early voting has started in Missouri, and the general election is Nov. 3. Until then, members of the Voter Champions Network and WashU Votes, both initiatives of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, remain hard at work connecting students, faculty and staff to voter information.

Portia Nartey, a doctoral student in social work at the WashU Brown School, has been selected to receive the 2026 Public Health Social Work Student Award from the American Public Health Association.

Mitra Naseh, an assistant professor at the Brown School, will receive the Beacon Award for Recognition of Excellence in Community from the International Institute of St. Louis.

WashU Arts & Sciences’ Seanna Leath has received an award from the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

A dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court over the Video Privacy Protection Act could have significant implications for surveillance-based advertising and the future of internet privacy, says Neil Richards, a privacy law expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

The United States imposed sweeping new sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) Oct. 9, following up on sanctions imposed last year. They are threatening academic freedom, limiting opportunities for law students and making it harder for scholars to engage with international legal institutions, WashU law professor Leila Sadat argues.

Artificial intelligence could help counter election misinformation at the same speed that false narratives spread, according to new research from WashU and Caltech.

Students with stronger reading skills are better able to spot misinformation online — and that may be especially important for teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to a new study from the Brown School.

Research from the WashU Brown School’s Center for Social Development helped lay the groundwork for a major change to the federal government’s new Trump Accounts program: automatic account creation for eligible children, which the administration announced Sept. 29.