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This is your brain on everyday life

4.3.23

Xuming He to chair new Department of Statistics and Data Science

4.5.23

Xuming He is a renowned leader in the fields of robust statistics, quantile regression, Bayesian inference, and post-selection inference. He will join Arts & Sciences from the University of Michigan.

Scientists share ‘comprehensive’ map of volcanoes on Venus — all 85,000 of them

3.29.23

WashU to host StanCon 2023

3.29.23

Carl Phillips reads his poem “Dirt Being Dirt”

4.8.21

Eng wins Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies

4.4.23

Ramos’ 'Bedlam in the New World' wins best book award

4.4.23

Augmented reality allows students to practice Italian in a virtual classroom

3.30.23

A saloon in the American Old West became a virtual environment for Iva Youkilis’ students to discuss, debate, and practice vocabulary about games — all in Italian.

How I chose my major

10.21.21

Ahead of this year's Major-Minor Fair, sophomore Gracie Hime writes about how she discovered her course of study in Arts & Sciences.

Penczykowski, Medley share seed grant to precisely measure St. Louis climate

4.4.23

Taylor Geospatial Institute grant will support project to measure neighborhood-by-neighborhood variations in St. Louis-area climate.

An award-winning writer prepares to take students inside the literary industry

4.5.23

As part of the Center for the Literary Arts Speaker Series, award-winning author Anna Moschovakis will participate in a panel discussion and reading April 13 and 14.

It’s time to reconsider Philip Roth

10.11.22

In a new book about the celebrated American novelist, Matthew Shipe explores Roth’s half-century struggle with the question of what it means to be American.