Perspectives

Dan Koboldt, a staff scientist at the Genome Institute, blogs about next-generation sequencing and medical genomics.

Thabiti Lewis, a visiting scholar in the Center for the Humanities, writes in the St. Louis American about Missouri football player Michael Sam’s announcement that he is gay.

Andrew Flachs, a PhD student in cultural anthropology, shares, in words and images, his work with farmers in southern India in National Geographic’s Explorers Journal.

Access to required anesthetic drugs for lethal injection is quickly disappearing. WUSTL biomedical ethics expert Rebecca Dresser, JD, says barriers to obtaining such drugs could lead more states to do away with the death penalty.

WUSTL’s Rebecca Wanzo, PhD, writes in The Huffington Post about the death of sociologist Stuart Hall.

Elizabeth Sepper, JD, associate professor of law, is weighing in on Hobby Lobby’s case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Sepper helped write a friend-of-the-court brief arguing the craft store’s request for a religious exemption to the federal contraception mandate is unconstitutional.

Carter Revard, PhD, professor emeritus of English, has released a new poetry collection, “From the Extinct Volcano, A Bird of Paradise.” He is reading from it this week in New Mexico and in April in St. Louis.

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WUSTL’s Clarissa Hayward, PhD, writes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about what it will take to change racial injustice.

Historian Peter Kastor writes in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the lessons we can learn as the city celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, with events starting this weekend.