Perspectives

With further development, targeting the brain-muscle axis could be a useful treatment for people suffering with long COVID and other diseases that cause brain inflammation, writes Aaron Johnson.

The Skandalaris Center shares on its blog a holiday gift guide, assembled with University Advancement, that showcases a variety of companies with WashU ties whose wares range from clothing to chocolates, handbags and board games.

The next year will bring plenty of changes to CITYPARK, including a new name. But while the stadium’s future is unwritten, and its long-term economic impact remains to be seen, we think it stands out as an example worth watching, writes Peter Boumgarden.

Who defines American values? In their respective reckonings with the Confederacy – and with modern racial justice movements – relocated Confederate statues are bellwethers of ongoing struggles to resolve this question, writes David Cunningham.

Graduate students Addison Schwamb and BethAnna Jones discuss how they use math to describe how the brain works and how it helps them explore applications in patient care on a recent episode of the “Engineering the Future” podcast.

Chemist Sophia Hayes, in Arts & Sciences, spoke on a podcast episode exploring the highs and lows of helium, a valuable and nonrenewable resource.

We advocate for broader application of these principals to support gender-transformative parenting programming that is tailored to address gender-based violence in humanitarian settings and that will continue to build the respective evidence base, write Lindsay Stark, Ilana Seff and Melissa Meinhart.

Poet and critic Eileen G’Sell, in Arts & Sciences, has published the collection “Francofilaments,” which is touted as “a poetic exploration of the intersections between Francophilia, feminism and cinema.”

Lest we become the unwitting victims to a premature political triumphalism, it behooves us to resist the allure of a cheap post-racialism (a cruel optimism) that some on the right will no doubt be selling to an increasingly manipulable electorate over the next few years, writes Thembelani Mbatha.

In the digital age, the museum selfie has become ubiquitous. But it’s not necessarily rooted in vanity, writes E.B. Hunter, an assistant professor of drama in Arts & Sciences. Such images also can serve as a way of appropriating art and creating more meaningful experiences.