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Fangqiong Ling, assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering

Amanda Pope, director of HR communications and employee engagement at WashU, discusses the university’s being recognized as Missouri’s top employer by Forbes, sharing initiatives offered to support employees throughout the pandemic.

If juries knew the consequences of their decisions, they’d deliberate more carefully — and could serve as a check on punitive laws, writes the School of Law’s Dan Epps.

Dan Epps, Treiman Professor of Law

 Jessica Gold, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry 

Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, associate professor of medicine

Noah Cohan in Arts & Sciences and John Early at the Sam Fox School are leading efforts to bring basketball hoops to Forest Park. Cohan writes about their project and the history of why basketball is conspicuously absent in a park with sporting facilities aplenty.

In addition to reaping the benefits of brain-computer interfaces, we need to ensure that we have the means to protect ourselves from corporations with every incentive to exploit this technology — and the inner workings of our own brains — for their financial gain, writes Rebecca Schwarzlose, research scientist in psychological & brain sciences in Arts & Sciences.

In the developing world most people are not factory farming and livestock is essential to preventing poverty and malnutrition, says the Brown School’s Lora Iannotti.

John Inazu, the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion, was working in the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, when a plane crashed into the building. Here, he reflects on the day and what it means to him now.