Dr. Khiara Bridges — professor, lawyer, and author — spoke to Washington University members about race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three during a keynote lecture as […]

As Krista Milich prepared for her class on the coronavirus, she didn’t know how many students would enroll. She heard that 10 students might join, maybe even 100.

Renowned anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer gave a lecture based upon his well-known mantra, “staff, stuff and systems,” in relation to public health disparities on Friday.

Funding for the federal Title VIII grant program, which would have helped fund any Washington University students interested in doing research on Eastern Europe, has been eliminated. Title VIII, established during the Cold War to encourage research that would benefit the government, offered grants to scholars involved in Eastern European and Eurasian studies.

He wakes up in the morning in an old tenement house, gets up and joins the other workers. After taking it out of the curing barn, he packages the dark aromatic tobacco into bales. In the early afternoon, once the morning dew has dissipated, he harvests the green, freshly grown tobacco in the fields, and then moves it to the curing barn for the new batch to dry.

For much of the summer, a beat-up Russian bus sits amongst the foothills of eastern Kazakhstan, within the Dzhungar Mountains. This solitary bus, outfitted with state-of-the-art scientific and electronic equipment, wireless Internet, and a driver’s area that transforms into a makeshift sleeping cabin, is a recent supplement to the equipment that has fostered years of groundbreaking fieldwork and research on nomadic pastoralism and human history.

In a world in which people pride themselves on the virtues of being human, physical anthropology professor Erik Trinkaus aims to unite modern man with the Neanderthal—society’s depiction of the village idiot.

Priya Sury, a 2010 Wash. U. alum, was named one of 32 Rhodes Scholars in the nation on Saturday afternoon. Winners of the Rhodes Scholarship are chosen on the basis of their academic achievements, personal integrity, leadership and physical vigor.

When I was applying to colleges, I had no idea what major I would choose. One of the most appealing aspects of Washington University was its flexibility; there were loose core requirements, leaving room for me to explore different subjects before deciding what I wanted to do with my life.