Perspectives

The student video project “WashU Between the Lines,” which launched in 2020, offers personal stories and encourages students to really get to know one another. New episodes posted recently.

Rachel Sachs, a health policy and drug law expert at the School of Law, discusses federal legislation that seeks to control drug prices on “Tradeoffs,” a national health policy podcast — and what the measure could mean for patients, insurers and pharmaceutical companies.

The one thing that is easy to see is that we did not need a new pipeline. So Spire is misleading the public, writes anthropology’s Bret Gustafson.

In a new book, Wolfram Schmidgen, professor of English in Arts & Sciences, explains how the excitement and anxiety about a disordered world affected literary invention in 18th-century England.

This episode of the “Show Me the Science” podcast focuses on the newly announced federal emergency use authorization to vaccinate children ages 5 to 11. Millions of such children could be fully vaccinated by the end of November.

For women with children at home, the Great Resignation is really the Great Push, our research finds, writes sociology’s Caitlyn Collins.

Michael Wysession, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, was a guest on a Halloween special of “The Climate Pod” podcast, discussing Frankenstein and climate change, “monsters of our own making.”

Dan Epps, Treiman Professor of Law

Martin Jacobs, professor of rabbinic studies in Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in Arts & Sciences, offers a Jewish perspective of the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlán, what is today Mexico City, to the Spanish conquistadors.

Jeff Hansen, an MD-PhD student at WashU, has written a children’s book, “The Perfect Baseball Player.” The project grew out of his thesis focused on the human genome.