Perspectives

Angela Miller, professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences, edited “Arthur Osver: Urban Landscape, Abstraction, and the Mystique of Place,” the first monograph on the work of the American painter. Osver was a professor of art at Washington University for 21 years. The book is featured on The Source’s Bookshelf.

Steven Webster, a postdoctoral fellow at the Weidenbaum Center, co-writes an analysis piece in The Washington Post about his recent research finding that Americans have little empathy for those who hold opposing political views, particularly on the topic of climate change.

When it launched in 2004, NASA expected the Mars Opportunity rover to last for 92 days. Last week marked its 15th anniversary. Raymond Arvidson, of Arts & Sciences, is deputy principal investigator for the rover. He told HEC-TV that NASA never imagined Opportunity could last for more than a few months on the red planet.

Geoff Ward, associate chair of African and African-American studies in Arts & Sciences, discusses both the history and the future of such programs, as well as his work on the legacies of racial violence, in The Ampersand.

Joshua Rubin, MD, PhD, professor at the School of Medicine, writes an article for The Conversation about recent brain tumor research finding that male and female patients respond differently to treatments for glioblastoma and what that means for future care.

Peter Boumgarden, professor of practice at Olin Business School, and Andrew Schuette, an audiologist at the School of Medicine and a PMBA candidate at Olin, write an op-ed in Stat about the debate over the future of the nation’s health-care system and the need for all sides to consider other points of view.

Provost Holden Thorp contributes to an article in Chemical & Engineering News about how universities can improve laboratory safety, discussing his experience as chair of a national committee that studied the issue in academia.

Three Olin Business School professors co-wrote an op-ed published on CNN’s website analyzing Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to connect executives’ pay to carbon emissions targets — and what that might mean for other companies and for the planet.

Statistician Liberty Vittert, visiting assistant professor in Arts & Sciences, writes an opinion piece published on Fox News estimating the cost of President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Barbara Schaal, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences, gives an interview in National Science Review about why science is a global public good and must be defended.