‘To address inequities, we must put race at the forefront’
Darrell Hudson, of the Brown School, writes in a column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that racism affects not just individual behaviors, but the systems that lead to inequality in everything from education to health. Hudson is also co-director of the Collaboration on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America, which held its inaugural conference March 28 […]
Lima publishes ‘Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings’
Zeuler Lima, associate professor at the Sam Fox School, has published a book collecting the drawings of prolific and legendary modern architect Lina Bo Bardi (Princeton University Press).
Book on Hebrew language publishes
Nancy Berg, professor in Arts & Sciences, has co-edited a book, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew,” exploring the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. Read about this and more on the Bookshelf.
‘Clara Schumann and the Creation of Classical Music’
Musicologist Alexander Stefaniak, of Arts & Sciences, discusses his book project exploring German pianist and composer Clara Schumann’s career as a performer. Stefaniak is a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities.
Book explores education efforts in St. Louis
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.
‘Coal ash in the Missouri River flood plain is a bad idea’
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.
‘Heading to Mexico for spring break? Here’s a statistician’s take on the risk vs. the reward’
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.
‘First ever global scientific eating plan forgets the world’s poor’
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.
Children’s book focuses on autism
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.
‘Why the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act led to buybacks rather than investment’
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.
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