Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Arts & Sciences is Washington University’s home for the liberal arts. The school comprises the core disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and its programs and research centers provide a platform for faculty and student collaboration across traditional academic subject areas, creating new, interdisciplinary avenues of discovery. The mission of Arts & Sciences is to advance innovative scholarship that reaches a broad public and fosters new discoveries, and to promote excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, preparing students for civic responsibility, work, and life through impactful collaborations with the St. Louis community and across the world.
A sociologist interviewed more than 200 Black workers about their experiences. Here’s what she found.
‘The Shepherd of the Hills’ has been running for 63 years and is the most performed outdoor drama in the U.S.
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Joanna Dee Das, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Comedians like Stephen Colbert might mock the entertainment mecca, but live theater is in too much of a crisis to dismiss the town’s formula of spectacle meets story.
WeChat aims to be everything to everyone but remain mostly in the background.
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Jianqing Chen, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
The design philosophy of the everything app WeChat may seem paradoxical, being simultaneously pervasive and inconspicuous. But this idea of “everythingness” goes back to ancient Taoist philosophy.
Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover has traveled 328 feet.
(100 meters) and measured the chemistry of the lunar soil
ISRO
India’s Chandrayaan-3 rover has found sulfur on the Moon’s surface at higher concentrations than previously seen. Sulfur, a useful resource, could pave the way for future Moon bases.
President Joe Biden and family after he was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 2021.
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With dads being the primary earners in many heterosexual households, it was often the mother who gave up work to manage extra work at home during the pandemic. But what about heterosexual households where the mother was the primary earner?
The high-risk adventure of air travel has been subdued, yet today’s long flights can paradoxically feel torturous.
Christopher Schaberg
Over the past 60 years, the duration of flights has remained roughly the same, while passengers have been subjected to more indignities, longer waits and more cancellations.
Who run the world? Cats!
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Theresa E. Gildner, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Though many Americans believe that parasitic infections exist in poorer countries, research shows that the problem exists in the US and has a higher impact in communities of color.
A studio set up for a SoulCycle event in New York City.
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Employers need good strategies to hire and retain more workers of color and older workers. The mandatory diversity training and requisite skills tests many of them now rely on don’t measure up.
Your zodiac sign – like Sagittarius, the archer – might be in the stars, but your future isn’t.
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Abram Van Engen, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Trump’s budget would eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities, breaking a tradition of funding humanities scholarship that goes back to the nation’s founding.
Does Hillary Clinton have her own brand of American exceptionalism?
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