Perspectives

Victoria L. May and Maia Elkana of the Institute for School Partnership write an article on the Edutopia website about effectively adapting science education for students learning from home.

One could hardly imagine any patient smoking in a doctor’s office openly in person. But, Americans report doing a telehealth appointment with their doctor while smoking a cigarette, drinking an alcoholic beverage, or driving, among other distractions like surfing the web or watching a movie, writes Jessica Gold.

Nancy E. Berg in Arts & Sciences co-edited the recently published book “Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making.” Read more about this survey of Israeli literature as well as other recent works by university faculty and alumni on the Bookshelf.

Mackenzie Lemieux, a first-year MD/PhD student at the School of Medicine, co-wrote a commentary in Cell Reports Medicine about the experiences of international graduate students in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ashley Hardin at Olin Business School co-writes an article published in Harvard Business Review explaining her recent research, which found that displaying family photos in the workplace cuts down on employee fraud and other unethical behavior.

Poet, dramatist, translator and literary theorist John Dryden was a central figure in the politics and culture of Restoration England. In a new survey for Oxford University Press, Arts & Sciences’ Steven Zwicker provides an authoritative overview of Dryden’s influential career.

As in every election, people are trying to influence your vote. For all their benefits, computers, even un-hacked computers, provide the unscrupulous with powerful tools for spreading deceitful and malignant messages — messages intended to disorient rather than inform the electorate, writes Ning Zhang

Historian Peter Kastor, the Samuel K. Eddy Professor in Arts & Sciences, along with 2019 graduate Joey Vettiankal, co-write an article on the Center for Humanities blog about the importance of the peaceful and public transfer of power in the American presidency.

Three WashU students, all members of LouHealth, a student-run public health advocacy group, co-write an op-ed published in The St. Louis American arguing that vulnerable groups such as survivors of domestic violence face particular challenges in participating in the once-a-decade census count.

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin writes on his blog, offering a set of community guiding principles leading up to the election. He suggests they “can help guide us toward this vision of what community can and should be — even in the midst of such political polarization.”