Perspectives

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

Mark Smith, JD, director of WUSTL’s Career Center, writes in his blog about what graduates still working to land that first job should do.

Margaret Garb, PhD, associate professor of history, has published a new book, “Freedom’s Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration.”

Seven WUSTL staff are getting ready for their university-sponsored trip to Ghana in June. Hear from them about all they’ve done to get to know the country and culture they’ll soon experience firsthand.

WUSTL alum Arsalan Iftikhar (AB ’99, JD ’03) writes a commentary for CNN about Boko Haram’s kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.

WUSTL’s Ramesh Agarwal, PhD, and alum Zheming Zhang, PhD, have just published a book on a technology that could help combat carbon dioxide emissions, “Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Geological Carbon Storage.”

Mike White, PhD, of WUSTL’s Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, writes in Pacific Standard about what the term “gene” means.

Mark Smith, JD, director of WUSTL’s Career Center, writes in his blog about how students should approach summer internships.

Author William H. Gass, PhD, professor emeritus in the humanities, has published a new book, “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry.”

WUSTL alum Richard Meier (MA ’75), PhD, discusses the gesture of pointing, and implications for those with autism, for an episode of “Hold That Thought,” a podcast series from Arts & Sciences.