Perspectives

Kristin Pfeifauf, a student at the School of Medicine, wrote an article for The Huffington Post about her personal experience being born with cleft lip and cleft palate and the importance of ensuring all with such conditions can get the medical care they need. Much of the care she received was at St. Louis Children’s […]

Ashley Jackson, a PhD student at the Brown School, wrote on the University Libraries blog recently about her online interactive research project, “Mapping Historical Police Violence in St. Louis,” which used ACLU of Missouri content housed at Olin Library’s Julian Edison Special Collections.

This episode of the School of Medicine’s “Show Me the Science” podcast focuses on a saliva test developed by medical school scientists to detect the virus that causes COVID-19.

Anca Parvulescu, professor of English and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, both in Arts & Sciences, co-writes about the history of Romani enslavement and its impact on representations of the Roma people. “Romani populations in East Europe remain a paradigmatic and often neglected example of a double practice of erasure and appropriation.”    

The School of Law’s Daniel Epps, a Supreme Court expert, was featured in a Q&A in Politico, discussing his ideas for how to reform the Supreme Court and consider the influence it wields.

Adrienne Davis has been honored by the St. Louis Business Journal with one of this year’s Diverse Business Leaders awards. In this Q&A, she discusses her contributions to Washington University’s diversity and inclusion goals, including serving as founding director of the new Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity. 

The School of Law’s Lee Epstein, a Supreme Court expert, co-writes an opinion piece in The New York Times about the growing influence of conservative Christian values at the Supreme Court and the impact of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had led the court’s liberal wing.

Public dialogue on police brutality presents and normalizes a false choice: where people can either accept policing as we know it or surrender to becoming the likely victims of crime. Justice or safety: Choose one. This narrative misrepresents the data itself, writes John Robinson

Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, instructor at the School of Medicine, writes an opinion piece in Newsweek about the effectiveness of hurrying a COVID-19 vaccine amid the health disparities and racism in the American health care system.

One way to protect against assuming the worst of our fellow citizens is to work toward charitable descriptions of one another’s religious practices, writes John Inazu.