Perspectives

University faculty members Joseph Goodman, PhD, Leonard Green, PhD, Selin Malkoc, PhD, Mary Politi, PhD, and John Schneider, MD, recently participated in a panel discussion on health-care decision making among vulnerable populations at a Society for Medical Decision Making conference.

Startup Connection is coming to campus later this month. St. Louis’ largest entrepreneurship and innovation showcase includes 25 teams connected to Washington University. Check out this video series to learn more about some of our people and the companies they’ve started.

Film studies scholar Diane Wei Lewis, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, provides an overview of the 34th annual Pordenone Silent Film Festival, a week-long celebration of silent film attended by scholars, archivists, students and enthusiasts in Pordenone, Italy.

American culture critic Gerald Early, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, writes a review in The Washington Post of “The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood,” a memoir by the hip-hop journalist, social activist and performance poet.

As October is National Physical Therapy Month, learn more in this video about how Washington University physical therapists are educating the next generation of leaders in PT and helping people to move and live better.

John N. Constantino, MD, of the School of Medicine, writes a commentary in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about how to improve the racial disparity in getting children with autism diagnosed early and ensuring they have access to appropriate treatment.

Where and how will people live as urban centers become larger and denser? That’s just one of many questions to consider as Arts & Sciences’ Carol Camp Yeakey, PhD, discusses urban studies in a global context on “Hold That Thought.”

Historian Jean Allman, PhD, director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, writes about the newly released Netflix film “Beasts of No Nation,” which portrays the 1990s civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, but was filmed in Ghana. She questions the consequences of perpetuating ambiguity about Africa.

Historian and author Anika Walke, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, writes on the Oxford University Press blog about World War II casualties in Belarus and that country’s memory of the Nazi genocide.

Sociology’s Adia Harvey Wingfield, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, writes in The Atlantic about struggles and stresses that black professionals face, both overt and subtle, when in a predominantly white workplace.