Perspectives

Victoria May, executive director of the Institute for School Partnership, co-authored a book that explores efforts to modernize education in the St. Louis region. The lead chapter of “Designing Successful Systems” tells the story of the institute’s innovative MySci curriculum.

Bret Gustafson, of Arts & Sciences, writes in a column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Ameren’s plans for handling coal ash near the Missouri River are bad for the environment and the people nearby.

Statistician Liberty Vittert, visiting assistant professor in Arts & Sciences, writes an opinion piece on the Fox News website about crime against Americans in Mexico and the story the numbers tell.

Malnutrition expert Lora Iannotti, at the Brown School, writes in an article for The Conversation that a global eating plan proposed by a team of world-leading scientists doesn’t adequately consider the world’s poorest people, who, for example, may rely on livestock for jobs as well as nutrition.

A new children’s book by child psychiatrist Mini Tandon, DO, at the School of Medicine, focuses on autism. This is the second such book Tandon has written, aiming to destigmatize mental health services for youth.

Anne Marie Knott, of Olin Business School, writes a piece in Forbes about how businesses responded to the 2017 federal tax legislation, which changed how corporations’ foreign profits are taxed.

Rachel Sachs, associate professor of law

Heidi Kolk, of the Sam Fox School, is publishing “Taking Possession.” The book centers on an 1851 St. Louis town home that originally was residence to a fur-trade tycoon and today serves as the Campbell House Museum. Over the last 130 years, it has been subject to extensive preservation work. Kolk explores the motivations behind […]

Mary Politi, of the School of Medicine, writes in a piece for The Conversation about the financial burdens and stress that cancer patients and their families face — a hardship that has been coined “financial toxicity” — and offers policy recommendations to lessen it.

Sociologist Caitlyn Collins, of Arts & Sciences, writes an op-ed in The New York Times about her research on the struggle working mothers face in balancing careers and families — and how U.S. policies and social systems are far less supportive than other western nations.