Perspectives

Ultimately, our study is a step toward understanding how transparency and visibility can shape economic outcomes. It highlights a diversity initiative that has benefited both customers and businesses, and provides a road map for companies that want to design initiatives that matter, writes Oren Reshef.

Richard Chapman is a senior lecturer in Film and Media Studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He has written more than 200 hours of network television as well as the Emmy-nominated HBO film “Live From Baghdad” (2002) and the documentary “Dateline-Saigon” (2020).

It is fair to say that America should be healthier again and that transparency, a rebalancing of interests toward the American people, and a reframing of health as a cornerstone of future prosperity and freedom should form key parts of that goal, writes Sandro Galea.

Ephraim Gau, a graduate student in physics in Arts & Sciences, writes in a National Institute of Standards and Technology blog about placing transition edge sensors — and a scientific refrigerator needed to cool them down — onto a balloon that would fly high above most of Earth’s atmosphere.

Happiness expert Tim Bono, associate dean in Arts & Sciences, writes about ways to combat a gloomy mood during this cold time of year. Simple things such as visiting a friend or getting some exercise can make a difference, he said.

Anna Wassel, a doctoral student in biology in Arts & Sciences, takes part in a podcast to explain her research on how pawpaw trees affect the diversity of the plants around them.

There’s so much potential to build upon and expand on long-standing partnerships, establish new ones, and activate the talents of our students and faculty in service to and alongside our region, said Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

A Q&A with Elvin Geng, who took on the co-EiC role for Implementation Science Communications in January 2025. A Professor of Medicine within the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University in St. Louis, he also leads as its Director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation.

Making a healthier country means putting prevention at the heart of our health agenda, in addition to delivering high-quality, accessible health care to all who need it, writes Sandro Galea.

If a country sees itself as a robust, vibrant, thriving, and growing country—as certainly the US of myth and nationalistic narrative suggests it to be—it requires a strong academic health research enterprise to allow it to inhabit that vision of itself. That should make academic health research as core to the national identity as our vision of a democratic country that permits and encourages self-determination. Academic health research makes all the rest of it possible, writes Sandro Galea.