Arts & Sciences

Bhupal Dev, an associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, will analyze possible neutrino interactions with dark matter at the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics in Germany.

Abram Van Engen, the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, has won Christianity Today’s 2024 Best Book Award in Culture, Poetry and the Arts for “Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church.”

Brad Jolliff, in Arts & Sciences, is part of the Artemis III geology team that is helping NASA to evaluate the nine potential lunar landing regions for their scientific potential.

WashU senior Emma Lembke, 22, has earned a spot on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” social media list. Lembke co-founded  Log Off, an organization for and by teens who want to raise awareness about social media’s impact on mental health.

Biologists in Arts & Sciences found that 57% of their samples of weedy rice collected in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana were resistant to herbicides.

Jeffrey Camille, a senior studying global studies and women, gender and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences at WashU, has been named a recipient of the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship.

Glioblastoma is an aggressive, incurable brain cancer that is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults. New research from Washington University in St. Louis shows that glioblastoma has an internal clock and syncs its daily rhythms to match — and take advantage of — the rhythms of its host.

Graduating WashU senior Breanna Yang has cared for patients in St. Louis Children’s Hospital, conducted research at WashU Medicine and founded a nonprofit to help sick children. Yang is among the 1,500 graduating students who will be celebrated at Saturday’s December recognition ceremony.

Researchers at Washington University are looking to find new ways to design vaccines to protect against inflammation in the brain that causes dementia.

The path maize took to reach eastern North America has long been debated. A new study in the journal Cell, co-authored by Gayle Fritz in Arts & Sciences, provides clear evidence that maize traveled across the Great Plains from the Southwest.