‘Instead of focusing on diversity on campus, we need to focus on equality’
Michelle Purdy, of Arts & Sciences, writes a perspective piece in The Washington Post about black students’ experience in private K-12 schools and the racism they continue to face.
Siteman launches resource on ways to reach healthier weight
The Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine has released a free resource, “8ight Ways to a Healthier Weight and Lower Risk of Cancer,” available online. Evidence-based tips include watching portion sizes, avoiding sugary drinks and getting active.
Classics’ Keeline co-hosts podcast in Latin
Tom Keeline, of the Department of Classics in Arts & Sciences, is co-host of a new podcast in Latin, titled “Philologia Perennis,” which delves into Latin topics through the ages.
New book on childhood obesity published
Denise E. Wilfley, of the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, is senior author of a newly published book that serves as a guide to using psychotherapy to treat childhood obesity.
The Moral Crusade
From civil rights and women’s suffrage to the Tea Party movement and #MeToo, moral crusades can shape an era. Arts & Sciences anthropologist and psychologist Pascal Boyer investigates why people get involved, how movements gain traction and what happens when they succeed.
B-schools strike out on unconventional paths
Business schools must study their markets carefully to determine how they can push themselves in wholly new directions. Benjamin Akande, senior adviser to the chancellor and director of the Africa initiative, writes a piece in BizEd.
‘Southern Baptists, gender hierarchy and the road to Trump’
Marie Griffith, director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, writes in the journal Religion & Politics about Southern Baptists’ views on gender roles and the denomination’s political influence.
‘Shakespeare and Olin? How better to integrate business and the arts’
How does Shakespeare fit together with business? This spring, as Henry Schvey of Arts & Sciences writes, Olin Business School brought the two together for an event almost unimaginable elsewhere in the United States.
‘If the Supreme Court is nakedly political, can it be just?’
Supreme Court scholar Lee Epstein co-writes an op-ed in The New York Times about President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination and how judges’ voting has become more predictable over time based on who appointed them.
‘Bacteria may be powerful weapon against antibiotic resistance’
Terence Crofts, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Medicine, writes a piece on The Conversation website about research in the lab of Gautam Dantas into drug-eating bacteria — and how they could actually help humans.
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