Student explains Brain Battle, named a ‘most disruptive business school startup’
Olin Business School student Joe Poole created Brain Battle, a mobile app to help students prepare for the ACT and SAT. Here, he explains the idea behind his gaming app, which was recognized among promising business student startups.
Refugee families are more likely to become self-reliant if provided with support outside of camp settings
Our findings suggest a fundamental rethinking may be needed over the use of camps. If these environments structurally limit what families can achieve, continuing to measure them against self-reliance standards may be setting them up to fail, write Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff.
The return of the Monroe Doctrine
Americans were shocked by the Jan. 3 raid on Venezuela and by the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. But the incident represents the return of something very old to U.S. foreign policy.
‘How WashU is turning a year of reckoning into opportunity’
WashU Chancellor Andrew D. Martin takes part in an episode of the “Arch City Report” podcast to discuss the challenges higher education is facing and how the university is positioning itself to weather the storm and come out stronger.
What We Give: Reflections From the Heart of Pediatric Cardiology
What does it take to become the kind of doctor a family can trust with their child’s heart? More than I thought, writes Eli Fredman, MD.
Professors: Does providing money to parents who have mistreated their kids actually improve child welfare?
We need smarter investments in the far less glamorous, yet essential, work of ensuring often-resistant parents receive mental health and addiction treatment, writes Sarah Font
‘Taco’ is latest in book series about everyday objects’ secret lives
In “Taco,” a new book for the Object Lessons series, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, in Arts & Sciences, offers a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native.
Student-led philosophy journal issue published
The Washington University Review of Philosophy, an annual journal of professional philosophy edited by undergraduate students, has published its fourth volume. Titled “Cooperation, Authority and Collective Action,” the issue explores the nature of collaboration, whether it’s truly possible to work as a group, and who (if anyone) has the right to lead.
Turtle Mountain Cert Petition Remains Pending: What does this mean for Callais?
Turtle Mountain is now a cert petition to watch not only because of the implied-cause-of-action issue, but also what it could tell us about Callais, writes Travis Crum.
Maxwell contributes to book on Bob Dylan songs
WIlliam J. Maxwell, in Arts & Sciences, is a contributor to the book “The Poetry of Bob Dylan,” a series of essays illuminating the songs’ poetic and literary character.
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