The life cycle of a building
New home construction is a major source of carbon emissions. Over the last three semesters, Hongxi Yin and Sam Fox School students helped develop a pavilion made entirely from salvaged materials. Now on view in Chicago’s Millennium Park, the project sequestered more carbon than it released.
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Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment
Alfonso Serrano, a politics editor at The Conversation U.S., spoke with Andrea Katz, a law scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, about the Minnesota lawsuit and its possible legal implications.
Has the Supreme Court Backed Itself Into a Corner?
In an online interview, John Guida, an editor in Times Opinion, talks with Andrea Katz, who teaches law at Washington University, about what might unfold in oral arguments — as well as how recent scholarship might apply to the case and on presidential power.
What a bear attack in a remote valley in Nepal tells us about the problem of aging rural communities
You may be forgiven for asking what a bear attack on a septuagenarian has to do with demographic change in Nepal. The answer, however, is everything, writes Geoff Childs.
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Researcher for a day
WashU engineer Marcus Foston regularly hosts middle school students to learn about cutting-edge science. It’s part of WashU’s immersive “Researcher for a Day” program.
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A new ‘Paradiso’
Celebrated poet Mary Jo Bang completes the third book in a modern translation of The Divine Comedy, an effort that took two decades.