Ogliore discusses Webb telescope images

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

‘Transforming society through play’

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.

Economist Horn discusses inflation concerns

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.

‘Cristina Rivera Garza’s Bodies Politic’

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.

What is actually killing Americans and how to solve it

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.

A discussion on Montás’ ‘Rescuing Socrates’

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 bacterium that is not a microbe

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

Collisions hint that four neutrons form a transient isolated entity

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.
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