Arts & Sciences

Biologist Keith Hengen’s research is getting deeper into sleep, unraveling the great mystery of slumber’s purpose in the brain and the body.

The journalists of WashU’s ”Student Life” take campus lessons into careers in national news.

“Homeschooled,” by Stefan Merrill Block, AB ’04, sheds a heartrending light on his educational upbringing.

WashU was a window to the world in the acclaimed career of contemporary painter John Moore.

A team of WashU researchers has received a more than $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the mechanisms underlying hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia.

A new WashU study shows how scientists can use ancient DNA to answer historical questions beyond what artifacts alone can reveal.

Naomi Kim-Yu, a doctoral candidate in English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American culture studies, both in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

Pamela Barmash, interim chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been elected president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

The Black Rep will launch its 50th anniversary season Sept. 11 with the Tony Award-winning musical “The Color Purple” in WashU’s Edison Theatre.

Hester Blum follows literary questions beyond the archive and into the environments that shaped them. A leading scholar of environmental humanities, Blum is the Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English in WashU Arts & Sciences.