Perspectives

James M. DuBois, of the School of Medicine, co-writes a commentary in the journal Nature about the Professionalism and Integrity Program, a training program he helps run for researchers who have lost their research privileges.

Essayist and American culture critic Gerald Early writes an opinion piece for The Washington Post about boxing legend Muhammad Ali and his significance both within and beyond boxing. Early is editor of “The Muhammad Ali Reader.”

Kurt Beals, of Arts & Sciences, discusses his latest work — the translation of a book about the life of German-language writer Franz Kafka, “Is That Kafka?” — in a “Cut and Paste” podcast with St. Louis Public Radio.

Adetunji Toriola, MD, PhD, of the Division of Public Health Sciences at the School of Medicine, discusses the litigation against Johnson & Johnson alleging harm from talc in baby powder and other products for a Wharton University podcast.

Claire Weichselbaum and Brian Lananna, doctoral students in neuroscience, co-founded Brain Discovery. The outreach program brings neuroscience into elementary-school classrooms, where kids can get to know a scientist and do fun brain experiments. Learn more on Arts & Sciences’ “Hold That Thought” podcast.

Essayist and American culture critic Gerald Early writes a piece in the latest edition of his online journal, The Common Reader, offering an overview of notable films about jazz trumpeters.

Rebecca Wanzo, of Arts & Sciences, writes a piece for The Conversation about the Black Panther, both the one headed to movie screens and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new comic series on the storied character.

German film scholar Jennifer Kapczynski, of Arts & Sciences, discusses on the Center for the Humanities website her book project looking at how films portrayed West Germany’s changing postwar ideology.

Biologist Erik Herzog, of Arts & Sciences, talks about efforts to get young people, from grade school on up, interested in neuroscience careers. He shares university efforts toward that end on “Hold That Thought.”

Pamela Barmash, associate professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew in Arts & Sciences, is co-editor of a new interdisciplinary book of scholarly essays on “Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations” (Lexington Books).