Perspectives

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.

Lynne Ramsay’s 1999 debut film is arguably one of the masterpieces of 20th-century depictions of childhood poverty, writes Eileen G’Sell, senior lecturer in college writing.

Tazeen Ali, a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, discusses a new book project focused on the Women’s Mosque of America, founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, and the platform it has given to Muslim women.

InPrint, a trainee-run scientific communication network that provides free editing, design and presentation consulting to the WashU community, in a Nature Portfolio Bioengineering Community post.