Perspectives

Gastroenterologist Matthew Ciorba, MD, of the School of Medicine, writes in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about how older adults can maintain or restore gut health.

Jackson Nickerson, PhD, director of Brookings Executive Education, writes on the Olin blog about ways employees can work to make improvements in their workplaces.

Asian scholars, practitioners and policymakers share lessons and look to the future in the book “Asset-Building Policies and Innovations in Asia.” The Center for Social Development’s Michael Sherraden, PhD, and Li Zou were among the editors.

A video features the close collaboration between the School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital to help children with diabetes through innovative research that benefits patient care.

Vice Provost Adrienne Davis, JD, analyzes the concept of reparations for slavery in light of events in Ferguson in delivering the 2015 Coxford Lecture at Western University in Ontario.

Literary scholar Erin McGlothlin, PhD, a faculty fellow in the Center for the Humanities, discusses her book project analyzing the humanizing depictions of Holocaust perpetrators in books and movies.

Casey Hyland, a glass artist and Sam Fox School alum, explains glass blowing and his work in a Q&A with LEO Weekly.

Alumnus Ken Cooper, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, published his first book, “Portraits of Purpose: A Tribute to Leadership.” Among his profiles is fellow alum Henry Hampton, producer of “Eyes on the Prize.”

Alison Heller, a graduate student in sociocultural anthropology in Arts & Sciences, created a photo-filled blog about her research on women with fistula in Niger.

Carolyn Sargent, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, writes about time she spent doing research on reproductive health care in France in an entry on the Institute for Public Health’s new blog.