Perspectives

Albert Woo, MD, chief of pediatric plastic surgery at the School of Medicine, offers tips for minimizing scarring with kids’ everyday injuries — and how to know when to see a professional.

Writer-in-residence Paul Legault discusses his book, “The Emily Dickinson Reader,” which reinterprets the poet’s work for present-day readers, on “Hold That Thought,” a podcast series from Arts & Sciences.

WUSTL legal expert John Inazu, JD, PhD, offers a perspective on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

The National Endowment for the Humanities in June featured art historian Elizabeth Childs’ book, “Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti.”

In recognition of the five-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death June 25, Gerald L. Early, PhD, reviews a recent book about the King of Pop.

Caroline Awh, who graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, blogs about her experience the past three weeks helping launch a water treatment business in a northern Ghana village.

Psychologist Tim Bono, PhD, assistant dean of Arts & Sciences, offers a TEDx presentation on how to respond to failure.

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.