Perspectives

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.

Joshua Swamidass, PhD, MD, of the School of Medicine, co-authored a book review featured in Science of the book “Darwin Devolves,” arguing the book seeks “to overturn modern evolutionary theory.”

Rebecca Copeland and Laura Miller, of Arts & Sciences, are co-editors of the book “Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History” (University of California Press). In this episode of the “Hold That Thought” podcast, the two discuss queens, goddesses and what makes a diva.

William F. Tate, dean of the Graduate School at Washington University, writes an op-ed for Diverse Issues in Higher Education about how the use of mathematics, and particularly algorithms, in decision-making for areas as varied as food stamps, criminal justice and voting districts can result in harm to certain people or groups.