Perspectives

Ryan Ogliore, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, offers insights about newly released deep-space images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Grand juries play a major role in the U.S. criminal justice system. And they’re very much in the news these days, writes Peter Joy in The Conversation.

Eileen G’Sell, a senior lecturer in Arts & Sciences, reviews “Assembly Required,” an exhibit that encourages the public to engage with art. It remains on view through Sunday, July 31, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis.

John Horn at Olin Business School discusses Americans’ growing concerns about inflation, from interest rate hikes to wage growth to supply chain disruptions, in a Q&A.

Family law expert Susan Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law, shares her takeaways from the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, including potential consequences beyond the issue of abortion.

Ignacio Sanchez Prado, the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, contributes to an article exploring the work of Mexican-born writer Cristina Rivera Garza, a previous visiting scholar at WashU.

The only way we are going to solve an exponentially growing crisis that spans all socioeconomic classes is to come together again like we did for COVID, writes Liberty Vittert, professor at Olin Business School.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, gives a review of Roosevelt Montás’ “Rescuing Socrates” and discusses humanities education.

A new discovery challenges the prevailing view of the boundaries of bacterial cell size, writes Petra Levin, professor of biology.

Lee Sobotka and Maria Piarulli of Arts & Sciences describe the significance of an experiment firing helium-8 nuclei at a proton target, which generated evidence that four neutrons can exist transiently without any other matter. But doubts remain, because the existence of such systems is at odds with theory.