Arts & Sciences

Holden Thorp, the Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor and editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals, will speak at a free online event Feb. 8 focused on the intersection between science and politics.

A five-year nearly $2 million project led by biologist Erik Herzog in Arts & Sciences will use machine learning and other tools to improve understanding of how the brain is organized as a network of synchronized circadian cells.

Eight faculty members at Washington University are among 564 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Leonard Green, Elizabeth S. Haswell, Sophia E. Hayes, Erik Herzog, Mark A. McDaniel, Jay W. Ponder, Crickette Sanz and Pamela K. Woodard.

Miriam Silberman, a microbiology major in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences, won a Diversification of Our Research Scientists (D.O.O.R.S.) scholarship from Promega.

Austin Moyle, a chemistry graduate student working with Michael Gross in Arts & Sciences, won a Next Generation Investigator Award from the California Separation Science Society.

Carter Revard, professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences, died Jan. 3 at his home in University City, Mo. He was 90.

A new study co-authored by biologist Jonathan Myers in Arts & Sciences provides key insights into how and why tree populations migrate in response to climate change. The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jeffrey Zacks, professor in Arts & Sciences and the School of Medicine, will explain how and why television and movies can have such strong effects on our brains in a Mirowitz Center online program Feb. 2.

A survey of health-care providers reveals challenges communicating and sharing information about COVID-19 with patients whose primary language in not English.

A new analysis led by geophysicist Anne M. Hofmeister in Arts & Sciences provides an alternative to the mantle convection hypothesis. The study is published in a special paper of the Geological Society of America.