Perspectives

Chris Gill, professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, writes an article in Axios about progress toward self-driving cars and how today’s simulations need improvement when it comes to processing speed.

Brooke Sadler, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Medicine and daughter of the late hematologist J. Evan Sadler, writes a poignant first-person article in the journal Neurology about how her family of scientists dealt with her father’s diagnosis last year of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The School of Medicine professor died in December.

Carmon Colangelo, the Ralph J. Nagel Dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, discusses the school, his personal art practice and the progress of the east end project on the Danforth Campus.

Benjamin Akande, director of the Africa initiative, writes a column in The St. Louis American marking the 30th anniversary this month of the Tiananmen Square massacre and reflecting on the meaning of freedom ahead of Independence Day celebrations in the U.S.

Roseann Weiss, a lead educator for the Gephardt Institute’s Arts as Civic Engagement Program, shares reflections on the program aimed at bringing together area university students in support of the arts.

Michael Kinch, associate vice chancellor, has published “The End of the Beginning: Cancer, Immunity, and the Future of a Cure.” The book details the history of cancer treatment, how our understanding of the disease has evolved and research that holds promise for future patients. Kinch is also director of the Center for Drug Discovery at the School […]

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education 65 years ago, holding that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. But Sheretta Butler-Barnes and Maya Williams, of the Brown School, write in a column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that inequities still exist today. For example, African American and […]

Edward F. Lawlor, dean emeritus of the Brown School, writes an op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch exploring science-based economic development in the St. Louis region and how the benefits have not been shared by all races, classes and neighborhoods.

Benjamin Akande, director of the university’s Africa initiative, sat down with St. Louis Public Radio to discuss the goals of the initiative and what lies ahead.

S. Joshua Swamidass, MD, PhD, at the School of Medicine and the McKelvey School of Engineering, writes an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal (and shared on the WashU Perspectives page) about faith communities wrestling with the implications of artificial intelligence.