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Alumni authors stack up

Washington University alumni, across disciplines and genres, tell compelling and unusual tales of interest.

Reacting through writing

First-time novelist Sarah Bruni, MFA ’07, shares her thoughts on being a book author and the pluses and minuses of the writing life.

Campus & Community

Tapping into the night mind

Novelist Eric Lundgren, MFA ’06, speaks to Washington magazine about the writing life and getting published.

Campus & Community

The liberal arts roots of genius

In Brave Genius, biologist Sean Carroll, PhD, AB ’79, moves beyond science and into World War II history, the French Resistance, philosophy and Cold War politics to tell the story of two Nobel Prize winners, biologist Jacques Monod and writer Albert Camus.

Campus & Community

Perspectives: Jackson Nickerson

Business professor Jack Nickerson offers a game plan — backed by solid academic research — for mid-level managers charged with leading organizational change.

Campus & Community

On the Map: France

Members of the Washington University community follow their research goals to the corners of the world.

Humanities & Society

Denotation: Disfavored speech

Experts weigh in on the definition and context of a popular term.

Medicine & Health

Six Tips: Memory

Advice on a single topic gathered from across campus and across disciplines

Campus & Community

Engineering skills in a health-care world

Alumna Alice Ndikumana, a technology consultant at Deloitte focusing on health care, finds herself on the front lines of one of the most hotly contested policy debates in U.S. history: health-care reform under the Affordable Care Act.

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A man for all seasonings

As the dining writer for The Times-Picayune and its website, NOLA.com, Todd Price, AB ’96, has become a well-known figure in the Big Easy’s bustling restaurant community.