Arts & Sciences

In a new study, Seanna Leath, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, explores the benefits of the Black Girl Magic Crew, an after-school program designed by Black women and girls to help girls feel encouraged and supported.

When biologist Elizabeth Carlen in Arts & Sciences saw that squirrels were not being reported in north St. Louis, she wanted to know why. Her new paper in People & Nature illustrates how social and ecological factors can create bias in contributory science data.

Children ages 3 to 6 who have had clinical depression are more likely than their peers to have attempted suicide or to have had thoughts of killing themselves by age 12, according to a new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.

Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, is one of five curatorial consultants working with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown to organize “The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball.” The new exhibit will open May 25.

John Klein, a professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences, contributed one of three principal essays to “Matisse and the Sea.”

A team from the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences won the Microanalysis Society’s Macres Award for the best instrumentation/software paper.

Peter Alan Fedders, a professor emeritus of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Feb. 22, 2024, in La Jolla, Calif. He was 85. Fedders was an expert in condensed-matter physics who made significant contributions to the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance.

Washington University in St. Louis sophomore Da’Juantay Wynter has been selected by the Institute for Responsible Citizenship for its Washington Program, a selective, two-summer program for talented Black male college students.

A new study by Margot Moinester in Arts & Sciences is among the first to find positive health benefits associated with inclusive immigration policies — a sharp contrast to the harmful effects of restrictive policies.

Research from Washington University in St. Louis shows that orchids probably originated in Eurasia. Biologist Susanne Renner in Arts & Sciences is a senior author of the study in New Phytologist.