Perspectives

WUSTL postdoctoral researcher Katherine Mooney has published a book detailing the critical role African Americans played in 19th-century horse racing.

DNA doesn’t determine race. Society does.

Psychologist Rebecca Treiman, PhD, explains some of the tricks that spelling bee contestants — and the rest of us — can use to get the words right.

Andrew Tuch, SJD, an associate professor of law, writes in a Harvard Law School blog that legal literature has largely overlooked the issue of investment bankers’ self-regulation.

Timothy McBride, PhD, a professor and health economist at the Brown School, writes in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the impact of the Legislature not expanding Medicaid.

WUSTL undergraduate student Carrick Reddin shares some nonacademic lessons learned in the first two years here.

Charles Goldfarb, MD, writes in his blog about his work with WUSTL students to create a prosthetic arm for a child.

Henry Barry, a WUSTL junior, regularly blogs about his undergraduate experience through the WUSTL 360 site, and here he writes about his tango class.

Author and WUSTL alum Rachel Wisdom (AB ’11) talks on KMOX Radio about her book based on a true story, “A Shopkeeper’s Daughter.”

Neil M. Richards, JD, professor of law, writes a commentary for Al Jazeera America about regulating big data.