Perspectives

Arts & Sciences alumna Megan M. Ferry, PhD ’98, speaks about learning a foreign language on The Academic Minute.

Maria Dans, MD, assistant professor of medicine, writes about palliative care, which includes consideration of a patient’s spiritual and emotional needs when planning treatment for serious illness.

Ronit Y. Stahl, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, writes about the military’s challenges in meeting the needs of its nonreligious members.

Margaret Garb, PhD, who teaches history in Arts & Sciences, discusses with the Center for the Humanities her new book, “Freedom’s Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration.”

Writer and adjunct instructor Repps Hudson reviews the novel “The Zone of Interest” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

School of Medicine students share their journey to create IDEA Labs, a bioengineering design incubator, in Nature Biotechnology.

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, PhD, discusses the history and status of Mormonism for “Hold That Thought,” a podcast series from Arts & Sciences.

David Rushing, executive chef at the Danforth University Center, talks about his experience on the TV show “Extreme Weight Loss” and his healthier lifestyle.

Vincent Sherry, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, writes about Marjorie Perloff, who is giving a lecture and receiving the university’s International Humanities Medal on Wednesday.

Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, a disease prevention expert at Siteman Cancer Center, writes on the American Association for Cancer Research blog about starting healthy habits during youth to lower breast cancer risk.