Perspectives

WUSTL psychology professors Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel co-write an essay in The Boston Globe adapted from their new book, “Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.”

Gerald Early, PhD, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, reviews “Stokely: A Life,” a book about civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael.

Eric Leuthardt, MD, director of the School of Medicine’s Center of Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology, explores how rapid changes in technology, neuroscience and medicine are transforming the world.

Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr., PhD, an associate professor in Arts & Sciences, has released a book, “Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing.” He’ll give a talk and sign copies of the book on campus later this month.

Professor Rebecca Messbarger, PhD, discusses how wax figures in an 18th-century Italian museum changed views of the human body in “Hold That Thought,” a podcast series from Arts & Sciences.

Ronald Levin, JD, testified before a U.S. House subcommittee recently, criticizing several aspects of a proposal to revamp the process for reviewing federal regulations.

WUSTL’s Carl Phillips, a professor of English in Arts & Sciences, discusses his work in a video interview with The Washington Post.

The blog from Washington University Archives offers a historical perspective on the happenings around campus. Their latest remembers Harold Ramis, plus a look at past Engineering Weeks.

WUSTL alum TaraShea Nesbit’s debut novel explores the stories of the wives of Manhattan Project scientists in 1940s Los Alamos.

Henry Schvey, professor of drama, remembers the late actor, director and WUSTL alum Harold Ramis in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.