WashU Experts

Umar Iqbal, a computer security expert from Washington University, explains how smart speakers process user data.

After years of financial turmoil, Walgreens recently announced that it has reached a $10 billion buyout deal with private-equity firm Sycamore — a move that likely will have wide-ranging consequences for how consumers access health care and health-care products, according to Olin Business School experts Patrick Aguilar and Peter Boumgarden.

Fighting rising antisemitism in the U.S. will require a dramatic shift in civility and a renewed focus on teaching history and religion, according to Mark Oppenheimer, at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. “The humanities don’t inoculate against hatred, but they give us the tools to fight it.”

President Donald Trump has made headlines recently for threatening to stop federal funding of “any college, school or university that allows illegal protests.” However, there is no such thing as an “illegal” protest, said an expert on constitutional law in the School of Law. The First Amendment explicitly protects the right of peaceable assembly.

A one-hour adjustment to the clock on the wall may not sound dramatic. But our biological clock begs to differ, according to biologist Erik Herzog in Arts & Sciences.

A computer scientist at Washington University explains data and privacy concerns with the increasing use of artificial intelligence.

People should be strategic about how and when they set new goals, according to positive psychology researcher Tim Bono at Washington University.

Andrea Katz, an expert on presidential power at WashU Law, says Trump’s threats to bypass Senate approval of controversial Cabinet nominees could turn the process on its head.

If there is one thing that is constant in marketing, it’s that things are constantly changing, according to Michael Wall, a marketing expert at WashU Olin Business School. As social media users flock to sites that align with their political beliefs, brands face the challenge of connecting with diverse audiences.

At a time when political polarization is becoming an increasing problem on social media, WashU data scientist Jean Springsteen is working on a way to bring down the temperature and still get buy-in from social media companies.