Perspectives

Geophysicist Michael Wysession, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, believes a new approach is needed in science education. He helped write the Next Generation Science Standards and discusses on “Hold That Thought” the need for a new direction.

LaTanya N. Buck, director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, writes in The St. Louis American about the angst of raising a black son.

Q&A with Arts & Sciences’ Ignacio Sanchez Prado about his latest project, which aims to define how and why some Mexican authors interact with the canon of world literature.

The Brown School’s Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, co-edited a book that presents the latest evidence on financial capability and asset holding among older adults.

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.