Perspectives

The Brown School’s Mark Rank co-writes an article diving into the stigma surrounding welfare benefits and how most recipients actually live, drawing on research from his newly published book “Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty.”

Eileen G’Sell, senior lecturer in writing in Arts & Sciences, writes a review of the Oscar-nominated drama “Sound of Metal,” saying the film explores the process of losing a sense inextricably tied to one’s identity.

Rachel Presti, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases physician who led the School of Medicine’s participation in the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine trial, encourages members of the public to take the first vaccine available to them.

Rather than encouraging fraud, the system would appear to be encouraging nonparticipation instead, writes the Brown School’s Mark Rank.

Little attention has been paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement. For these women and girls, COVID-19 has made them particularly vulnerable to increases in gender-based violence, writes the Brown School’s Lindsay Stark.

In this episode of the “Show Me the Science” podcast, produced by the School of Medicine, infectious disease specialist Steve Lawrence, MD, returns to discuss where we’ve been during the pandemic and what is to come.

In a new episode of the “American Democracy Lab” podcast, presented by the Gephardt Institute, WashU experts help us understand what anger means, particularly at this moment, and how we can build a more “United” States.

As President Biden announced plans to study reforms to the Supreme Court, School of Law faculty Dan Epps and Kyle Rozema discuss their academic article, Designing Supreme Court Term Limits, which examines how term limits might play out in practice.

In recognition of Women’s History Month in March, the university’s Office of Supplier Diversity is highlighting six women business enterprise firms that are rising up globally, nationally and locally here at WashU. Learn more about them.

The Brown School’s Mark Rank, co-author of the new book “Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty,” discusses five commons myths about poverty in America.