Arts & Sciences

Rafia Zafar, professor of English, has co-edited a special issue of the African American Review dedicated to pioneering writer, historian and activist Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938).

Three Washington University faculty members — David Cunningham, Hedwig Lee and Geoff Ward — have co-edited a special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis examined data from 2,600 lizard species worldwide and discovered that while hundreds of different types of lizards have independently evolved arboreal lifestyles, species that possessed sticky toepads prevailed.

After a sudden move to the Midwest, author Sayed Kashua brings his series of novels that explored Arab-Israeli identity to an end.

Planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson, AB ’01, wants to find the limits of life and broaden our world.

Brenda Asare has raised billions for nonprofits by taking a for-profit approach.

Sam Goodwin traveled to all 193 United Nations sovereign countries from 2010 to 2019, but when he was detained at a Syrian checkpoint and put in prison, he had to dig deep within himself to keep going.

For the Glazers, family reunions look more like WashU Reunions.

In the course “Morality and Markets,” students gain new perspectives on real-life business situations through fiction.

New research led by archaeologists at Washington University in St. Louis shows that meat and dairy played a more significant role in human diets in Bronze Age China than previously thought. The analysis also suggests that farmers and herders tended to sheep and goats differently than they did their cows.