News Clips

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor of medicine

Trivializing COVID-19 as an inconsequential cold or equating it with the flu does not align with reality, writes Ziyad Al-Aly.

Nico Dosenbach, MD, associate professor of neurology; and Joshua Siegel, MD, instructor in psychiatry

In these unprecedented times for public health, it is critical that the profession move outside of its comfort zone and allow for its members to fully realize the knowledge and wisdom that has been there all along, writes Hannah Szlyk.

Mark Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare

Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

“WashU and St. Louis share a powerful potential for progress when the people of this region work together,” Chancellor Andrew D. Martin writes in an op-ed focusing attention on the university’s “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative and marking the 150th anniversary of the Eads Bridge.

Joshua Siegel, MD, instructor in psychiatry

The imagined community that American fans feel part of when they root for Team USA is no accident. The alluring dynamics of fandom, nationalism and dramatic storytelling have been carefully orchestrated to capture our attention, for better or worse, writes Noah Cohan.

Patrick Fowler, professor in the Brown School