Humanities & Society

Students and faculty working with the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic at the Washington University School of Law were able to help a St. Louis woman reduce her tax debt and keep her house.

During this open enrollment season, parents should consider privacy implications when adding their adult children to their health insurance plan, said a health insurance expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

Anthropologist Crickette Sanz in Arts & Sciences was honored with the Saint Louis Zoo’s 2023 Conservation Award, which recognized her work with David Morgan to help ensure the long-term survival of chimpanzees and gorillas in the Congo Basin.

Analyzing more than 94,000 Craigslist rental housing advertisements in St. Louis city from 2017-2020, Ariela Schachter, in Arts & Sciences, found consistent trends that reflect the implicit bias landlords and renters have about neighborhoods based on their racial and socioeconomic makeup.

Historian Colin Gordon will discuss his new book, “Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality,” at a Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series event at noon Monday, Nov. 6, in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The book documents the history and consequences of private restrictions in greater St. Louis and other Midwest towns.

Ruochen Chen, a doctoral candidate in history in Arts & Sciences, has won a Gale Non-Residential Fellowship from the Association for Asian Studies.

Rebecca Dresser, the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law Emerita, has been named recipient of the 2023 Bioethics Founders’ Award, presented by The Hastings Center.

While the flesh-eating undead portrayed on television are just fiction, there are clear examples of parasites that have evolved to manipulate their hosts, according to Theresa Gildner in Arts & Sciences.

Washington University is partnering with the St. Louis Integrated Health Network on a five-year $3.8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The funding aims to help improve health, prevent chronic diseases and reduce health disparities.