Washington Magazine

With a storied literary past, Washington University continues to provide time, place and space to stretch as a poet.

Two Washington University scientists are reconstructing past climate and cultural shifts in the Peruvian Andes. Today, such high-altitude parts of the tropics are warming faster than the rest of the globe. What Bronwen Konecky and Sarah Baitzel discover could help predict how this delicate ecosystem might be affected in the future.

As we become more reliant on technology that interacts with the physical world — self-driving cars, delivery drones, medical equipment — we need researchers like Ning Zhang to help keep us a step ahead of the hackers.

In her course “Sick Society,” Hedwig Lee, professor of sociology, shows that lifestyle and genes aren’t the only things impacting health.

In his latest book of poetry, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, Carl Phillips returns to some of his most enduring themes, love, vulnerability, doubt, regret and desire.

After a friend started a church in Australia, Professor Thakor wondered: what impact can a higher purpose have on your business?

The COVID-19 crisis could reshape public health for the better.

Matthew Kreuter, the Kahn Family Professor of Public Health at the Brown School, is trying to make sure everyone understands the COVID-19 vaccine.

By studying our brain’s connectome, behavioral neuroscientist Damien Fair is drawing a new map of autism.

In the mid-1990s, Lise Shipley helped bring the Internet to the masses.