‘Managing hot moments in 2025’
Rick Moore, at WashU’s Center for Teaching and Learning, takes part in a podcast episode to offer ideas about how faculty members can prepare for and navigate politically charged moments in their classes.
How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back, writes Ignacio Sánchez Prado.
3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild
By documenting the unexpected – the seemingly impossible survivors – we’re reminded that nature still holds surprises that can fundamentally change how we think about life itself, writes Jonathan Losos.
Political violence: What can happen when First Amendment free speech meets Second Amendment gun rights
The combination of free speech and gun rights makes the growing problem of political violence much harder to solve, writes Gregory Magarian.
‘A well-placed light’
Sean Savoie, in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, explores the surprising ways that lighting design shapes our well-being and daily life.
Should States Be Abolished?
American politics have reached a point where a radical solution may be needed. It’s worth thinking about, anyway, writes Stephen Legomsky.
Conflict at the drugstore: When pharmacists’ and patients’ values collide
If pharmacists wish to regulate themselves, history makes clear they need to define what it means to act in the public interest and ensure that other pharmacists comply. If not, the state has proved more than willing to step in and do the job for them. They may not like the results, writes Elizabeth Chiarello.
‘A federal program helps older people get jobs, but the Trump administration wants to get rid of it’
Cal Halvorsen and Nancy Morrow-Howell, at the Brown School, co-write an article about the benefits of a federal program aimed at assisting older Americans who left the labor force sooner than they planned to find new opportunities.
MAHA’s Hallucinations
At a minimum, the authors of the MAHA report should be held to the same standards of scientific integrity that we require from public health students, write Amy Eyler, Jenine Harris and Kimberly Johnson.
New edition of public health textbook published, updated post-COVID-19
A new edition of the leading textbook on public health practice, “Evidence-Based Public Health,” has been released. Two faculty members at the WashU School of Public Health are co-authors: Ross Brownson and Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan.
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