New tool to enable exploration of human-environment interactions
News

New tool to enable exploration of human-environment interactions

November 22, 2023

Universal device will allow transdisciplinary collaboration globally Spurred by the current climate crisis, there has been a heightened attention within the scientific community in recent years to how past climate variation contributed to historic human migration and other behaviors.  Now, an international group of scientists — including archaeologists, historians, climate scientists, paleo-scientists, a volcanologist and […]

Global Health Center partners bring local to global effort full circle
North America

Global Health Center partners bring local to global effort full circle

On November 15, leaders from the Global Health Center at the Institute for Public Health and Department of Medicine, cardiovascular experts from the University of Abuja, Nigeria and project partners and leaders from Parents as Teachers National Center joined WashU alumni, faculty, students, and members of the WashU Alumni and Development team for a special […]

Senior Tori Harwell selected as a Rhodes Scholar
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Senior Tori Harwell selected as a Rhodes Scholar

November 12, 2023

WashU’s 30th Rhodes Scholar wants to help grassroots leaders find climate solutions Washington University in St. Louis senior Victoria “Tori”  Harwell has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar, the 30th winner in university history. Harwell was among the 32 students nationwide selected Saturday, Nov. 11, to receive the prestigious honor that provides scholars the opportunity to earn an […]

How underground fungi shape forests
North America

How underground fungi shape forests

November 9, 2023

The story and science of a Forest Global Earth Observatory A large study involving 43 research plots in the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) Network — including a swath of trees at Tyson Research Center, the environmental field station of Washington University in St. Louis — has helped clarify the power of underground fungi to shape forests.  From the […]

Telling a tale of two cities
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Telling a tale of two cities

November 6, 2023

Senior Lauren Harpold received a Summer Undergraduate Research Award and was named a Pulitzer Reporting Fellow for her research on land use and gentrification in St. Louis and Amsterdam. For as long as she’s been at WashU, Lauren Harpold has been thinking about housing. The senior anthropology major grew up in Houston, Texas, and lived […]

Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures
Asia-Pacific

Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures

November 2, 2023

Over last 2,000 years, rising and falling temperatures have altered the way water moves around the planet It’s a multibillion dollar question: What will happen to water as temperatures continue to rise? There will be winners and losers with any change that redistributes where, when and how much water is available for humans to drink […]

Chen wins digital humanities fellowship
Greater China

Chen wins digital humanities fellowship

November 1, 2023

Ruochen Chen, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a Gale Non-Residential Fellowship from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). The fellowship is intended to help scholars expand the fields of Asian studies for research and teaching, and to foster the skills to apply […]

Holiness and humanity in the Middle Ages
Europe

Holiness and humanity in the Middle Ages

October 24, 2023

Mark Gregory Pegg’s new book explores love, heresy, and the individual stories of the medieval West. In his new book, “Beatrice’s Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages,” Professor of History Mark Gregory Pegg traces humanity’s changing relationship to the divine over 1,200 years of western medieval history. Recently, he sat down with the Ampersand […]

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