Arts & Sciences

Francisco Buera has been named the Sam B. Cook Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. He was installed May 7 at a ceremony in Ridgley Hall’s Holmes Lounge.

“Nike is turning towards a younger, more diverse America because they’ve calculated that Trumpian claims about compulsory patriotism and black athletic obedience will not win out,” says Noah Cohan, who studies sports narratives and fandom at Washington University in St. Louis.

Anika Walke, assistant professor of history in Arts & Sciences, is co-recipient of a 2018 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to support “The Holocaust Ghettos Project” from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

British architect Sir David Adjaye, who led design of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, will receive the 2018 International Humanities Prize from Washington University in St. Louis. The $25,000 prize is among the largest U.S. awards in the humanities.

Celebrated composer Darwin Aquino will join the Washington University Symphony Orchestra as conductor-in-residence beginning with the 2018-19 season.

Processes that were thought to take tens of thousands of years can happen in hours, according to new research. And that may change our understanding of the carbon cycle, and maybe the history of Earth’s climate.

Paul Tran, a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, is one of five young poets awarded a $25,800 prize from the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine.

Students in an undergraduate class in Arts & Sciences traveled to the remote Portuguese Azores archipelago to study field geology techniques in a rugged landscape shaped by volcanoes and shifting tectonic plates.

The Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences recently received an Innovation Award from the Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in recognition of its outstanding program that improves research safety on campus.

If you’ve ever experienced jet lag, you are familiar with your circadian rhythm, which manages nearly all aspects of metabolism. Every cell in the body has a circadian clock, but until now, researchers were unclear about how networks of cells connect with each other over time. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and collaborating institutions have developed a new method that sheds light on these circadian rhythm networks.