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Question: In what year was what’s now called the Department of African and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences established?

Jonathan Myers, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and Solny Adalsteinsson, staff scientist at Tyson Research Center, participated in a Future of Fire Consortium that produced both a scholarly review and a blog item in the Journal of Ecology.

Gen. Roscoe Robinson Jr. should join his fellow U.S. Army generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, as immortals on the Loop.

The coronavirus will fade eventually, but the uncertainties of today’s world continue to grow. It is more important than ever to build a long-term financial security system for U.S. families, and this system should include undocumented workers.

Washington University Athletics has reached its first apparel deal in department history, signing an agreement with Nike and BSN Sports.

Jeffrey P. Henderson, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, has received a $20,000 grant from the Longer Life Foundation, a cooperative effort between the School of Medicine and the Reinsurance Group of America, to help fund his research, which has pivoted in response to the novel coronavirus […]

David Patterson Silver Wolf, associate professor at the Brown School, is part of a two-year, $1 million grant that will create a data warehouse ─ a system that collects and analyzes information ─ to improve outcomes and reduce costs for mental health and substance use treatment services in underserved rural areas of New York state. Patterson will […]

The Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law has received a $100,000 grant from Microsoft Corp. to hire a fellow to work on the institute’s Cloud Civil Liberties Project.

Michael Krawczynski, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences  in Arts & Sciences, received a $234,692 grant from NASA for a project titled “Investigating Mechanisms for Producing Metallic Fe Enrichments and Magnetic Anomalies within Planetary Crustal Materials.” Krawczynski also won $136,725 from the National Science Foundation for collaborative research on the Earth’s deep interior titled “Experimental Partitioning of Highly […]

What if we dedicated ourselves to making our home, St. Louis, not a name on a list of racial violence and inequity but instead a model of a future of urban equity and democracy? What if we led the nation in finding models for police accountability and equitable policing?