The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline
The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain
Michelle Smirnova, AB ’06, argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in which suffering is medicalized and drug use is criminalized.
How to Talk to Kids about Anything
Tips, Scripts, Stories, and Steps to Make Even the Toughest Conversations Easier
Robyn Silverman, AB ’96, host of the How to Talk to Kids About Anything Parenting Podcast, offers a step-by-step guide to answering your kids’ toughest questions.
The Boundaries of Ancient Trade
Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia
Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as archaeological evidence, “The Boundaries of Ancient Trade,” by archaeologist Helina Woldekiros in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, challenges long-standing conceptions of highly centralized sociopolitical and economic organization and trade along the Afar salt trail: one of the last economically significant caravan-based trade routes in the world.
Faculty receive equitable growth grants
Jake Rosenfeld, in Arts & Sciences, and Stephen Roll, at the Brown School, received grants from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how inequality affects economic growth and well-being in the United States.
The Opening of the Protestant Mind
How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty
During the mid-17th century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition. By the mid-18th century, they described amicable debates with Algonquian religious leaders, conversations with Muslim scholars, and encounters with priests in Catholic Canada and Europe.
What explains this poignant shift?
Climate reporter Baker to discuss heat safety standards
The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis will host Aryn Baker, Time magazine’s senior international climate and environment correspondent, for a public forum and reception Sept. 26.
Annual public interest law series speakers lined up
The 25th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series, sponsored by the School of Law, continues with its annual Constitution Day lecture Sept. 26.
Black legislators talk more about race, and it works
A new study from political scientist Matthew Hayes in Arts & Sciences finds legislators who use symbolism in speeches about race and civil rights reap electoral rewards, including more favorable evaluations and higher voter turnout.
Still separate and unequal: How subsidized housing exacerbates inequality
New sociology research from Elizabeth Korver-Glenn in Arts & Sciences finds Black and Latino subsidized renters live in homes with more unsafe conditions while simultaneously paying more, both total cost and relative to their income.
Wiseman-Jones awarded Leakey Foundation grant
Lauren Wiseman-Jones, a graduate student of biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences, is studying how wild mountain gorillas respond to social and human-caused stressors. She won a Leakey Foundation grant for the work.
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