Arts & Sciences

Sophia Hayes, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, served on a committee that prepared a report and launched a website about the shortage of liquid helium and how both the government and scientific researchers can respond.

Donald Trump’s surprising success with Mormon, Catholic and evangelical Christian voters can best be explained by the deep distrust that these groups have for Hillary Clinton, suggests R. Marie Griffith, director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.

Donald Trump’s election has shocked many. But for Adia Harvey Wingfield, professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences, the candidate’s rhetoric has been all too familiar.

Jeffrey McCune, associate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis, argues that Trump voters understood exactly the candidate they were getting.

At a transformative moment in our nation’s history, when America’s “Brexit vote” came to pass, where better than Washington University to bring together the thought leaders and experts from disparate fields covering the littered landscape that was, is and forever will be Election 2016?

For political prognosticators, the 2016 presidential campaign has emerged as the most egregious “wrong call” since incumbent president Harry S. Truman defeated New York governor Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. But another interesting comparison can be found in the 1936 contest between incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt and Kansas governor Alf Landon, says presidential historian Peter Kastor.

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, millions of Americans watched Donald Trump play the successful businessman on NBC’s hit reality show “The Apprentice.” Both the exposure and the experience served him well, said Richard Chapman, senior lecturer in film & media studies in Arts & Sciences.

With Donald Trump in the White House and Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, Democrats will be looking to use the filibuster and other procedural options to exert as much influence as possible over Supreme Court nominations and other issues on the Trump-Republican agenda, suggests Steven S. Smith, a nationally recognized expert on congressional politics at Washington University in St. Louis.

This summer, Jean Allman, director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, won a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In this Q&A, Allman discusses the future of the humanities doctorate.

James G. Miller, the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences, received the 2016 Rayleigh Award at the International Ultrasonics Symposium this fall in Tours, France.