Arts & Sciences

An eye-opening undergraduate education paved the way for Kirk Ogrosky’s
distinguished legal career and inspires his active involvement today.

“Present topics of interest always have a much deeper past,” says Abram Van Engen,
the new director of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.

Karen Ivy has excelled in aerospace and academia. Now, she uses her experiences to empower the next generation of leaders.

Mark Sawyier and his tech company, Bonfyre, call St. Louis home.

WashU connections abound at a restorative retreat in Playa El Coco, Nicaragua.

Covering everything from social media to bitcoin to AI, a timely and all-too-topical political science course challenges students to think differently.

The Summer Philosophy Academy is a free one-week program for curious high school students. Through lectures, discussions and field trips, participants explore urgent ethical and philosophical questions about political polarization, artificial intelligence, social media and more.

With her new book, “Labwork to Leadership,” Jen Heemstra in Arts & Sciences aims to help create a healthier academic culture and support the next generation of leaders.

Psychology researchers at Washington University in St. Louis studied how pandemic stresses affected decision-making in different age groups — findings with implications for public health messaging.

A new federal government interpretation allowing churches to endorse political candidates will cause division in churches and sets the stage for the U.S. government to favor politically aligned religions, says Mark Valeri, an American religious historian at Washington University in St. Louis.