Perspectives

Flora Cassen, associate professor in Arts & Sciences, writes an opinion piece published in Haaretz, saying that as the COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world, the dark web has filled with conspiracy theories accusing Jews of triggering it.

Cyrus Ghaznavi, a second-year medical student at Washington University, writes an article published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about how medical students are contributing during the pandemic even if they can’t directly care for patients.

Amid today’s pandemic, as many eagerly await a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, Michael Kinch explains five myths about this medical innovation.

The people of St. Louis, the only majority-black jurisdiction in Missouri, elected Gardner to fulfill that promise. And now, writes Kimberly Norwood, some state legislators are trying to strip Gardner of her power, and by extension, deny the people of St. Louis their voice.

In St. Louis, as in the country at large, the deadly disparities of the pandemic are as unsurprising as they are unsettling, writes Jason Purnell. It is not simply that African Americans in St. Louis, as in the rest of the United States, have been left behind, and thus set in the way of the virus.

Jessica Rosenfeld, a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, discusses on the center’s website her book project exploring the emotions of envy and love.

Completing the 2020 census – and everyone verifying it is done, one family at a time – can guarantee shelter, education and food on the table for today’s children and tomorrow’s grandchildren, especially for those living in North City and North County, writes Sean Joe.

Michael Kinch, associate vice chancellor and director of the Centers for Research Innovation in Business and Drug Discovery at the university, writes an op-ed published by CNN offering a cautionary tale about rushing to approve a vaccine for COVID-19.

In the latest episode of the “Show Me the Science” podcast, the School of Medicine’s Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, says those confining themselves at home can take steps to stay mentally and physically healthy, the most important of which involves being kind to oneself.

The Beyond Boundaries Program has launched a podcast. It highlights the stories of Beyond Boundaries faculty and students and their ideas for the future of work and play. Beyond Boundaries encourages an interdisciplinary approach to education.