Perspectives

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.

The blog from Olin Business School gives readers the latest news about the school, students and alumni in areas ranging from sports management to entrepreneurship.

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.