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Humanities & Society

Shining a light on the forgotten

Lindsay Stark’s research shines a light on some of the most endangered, exploited and forgotten people in the world. By unearthing and measuring data on women and children in hazardous settings such as war zones or refugee camps, she helps find ways to keep them safe. “I’m often looking at populations that have been forgotten […]
Science & Technology

Engineering a better way

Quing Zhu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has devoted her career to perfecting technologies that find — and treat — cancer.
Business & Entrepreneurship

Better decisions, better choices

Every day we make thousands of decisions, from the small – what to eat? what to wear? – to the potentially life-changing choices involving our health or financial future. Olin Business School consumer behavior psychologist Hannah Perfecto does her research at the juncture of judgment and decision-making and has learned none of it has to be so hard.
Humanities & Society

The transformative power of teaching and research

Peggie Smith is a champion for strengthening the rights and legal protections of domestic workers, particularly Black women. Smith became interested in the issue while in graduate school, realizing that there was little research and effort at the time around such laborers’ particular concerns and perspectives. She credits her first-grade teacher, with whom she still keeps in touch, with inspiring her to go into teaching rather than practicing law.
Campus & Community

Leading the way

Headshots of eight notable WashU women
Every day, women are expanding boundaries, pushing forward and showing up in the areas of scholarship, academia and research. And when that happens, we are all better for it. Read about eight remarkable WashU Women who are at the top of their game, showing up with grace and leading the way.
Humanities & Society

From the Congo to the carpool

Anthropologist Crickette Sanz in the Congo.
As a world-class anthropologist who has made it her life’s work to study primate sociality, Crickette Sanz knows firsthand how important it is to forge strong social connections to help her achieve work/life balance.
Medicine

New way viruses trigger autoimmunity discovered

Studying mice, Washington University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that roseolovirus can trigger autoimmunity in a previously unknown way: by disrupting the process by which immune cells learn to avoid targeting their own body’s cells and tissues.
Literature

Faculty Book Celebration March 3

Acclaimed author, cartoonist, philosopher, screenwriter and essayist Charles Johnson, who won the 1990 National Book Award for his novel “Middle Passage,” will present the keynote address for the 2022 Faculty Book Celebration at Washington University in St. Louis.
Anthropology & Archaeology

Big data arrives on the farm

farmer seated with laptop
Precision agriculture is beginning to shape the strategies and choices of farmers around the world, according to a new analysis by Glenn Stone, professor of anthropology and of environmental studies in Arts & Sciences.