Perspectives

Mark Smith, director of the university’s Career Center, offers advice to students about preparing for job interviews and networking in his video blog “Between You and Me.”

William Lowry, of Arts & Sciences, writes a review in Science of “Grand Canyon for Sale,” calling the book a wake-up call for anyone who cares about public lands, especially the U.S. national parks. The review is featured on a new website, WashU Perspectives, which highlights our faculty’s thought leadership.

Mary Politi, of the School of Medicine, writes for The Conversation about ways for medical professionals to better understand and respond to parents’ reluctance to vaccinate their children.

Patrick Rishe, director of Olin’s Sports Business Program, discusses on the WalletHub site the U.S. Open underway this week in New York and the economic impact of such a lengthy sporting event.

Brandon Robert Wilson, a Chancellor’s Fellow and PhD student in Arts & Sciences, recently published a book, “The Half Beneath” (TouchPointPress). The Riverfront Times reviewed the work, which explores the life of a slave, drawing from Wilson’s great-great-grandfather’s experience.

Eric Leuthardt, MD, of the School of Medicine, explains in an HEC-TV Innovations episode a research effort to create 3-D personalized maps of the brain to help neurosurgeons operate more safely and successfully.

Will Ross, MD, of the School of Medicine, writes eloquently in The St. Louis American about the protests and violence in Charlottesville, Va., and how we must move forward and confront hatred and injustice.

Mark Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the Brown School, writes about his ongoing poverty risk calculator project on the Contexts website.

Marie Griffith, director of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, writes in Religion & Politics about the protests and violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, saying that white Christians in particular need to speak out and “fight the scourge of racism as the nation-destroying disease it is.”

Presidential historian Peter Kastor, of Arts & Sciences, writes a commentary in Fortune about what the appropriate role is for the children of presidents, in light of President Donald Trump’s family members serving in formal roles in his administration.