Beginning this semester, the newly formed Washington University Naming Review Board (NRB) will begin receiving reports on potentially controversial names of University buildings, programs, and monuments.
Faculty from various disciplines at Washington University in St. Louis have received seed grant funding from the Taylor Geospatial Institute. The grants are designed to encourage collaborative research and provide resources to advance geospatial science through innovative projects.
After compiling more than 100,000 records from the earliest days of the American Republic, Faculty Fellow Peter Kastor seeks to reconstruct and understand the federal government at the moment of its creation. With his book and database project currently underway, he is chronicling how the Founding Fathers faced the daily challenges of running a new and complex government.
In new episode of the American Democracy Lab podcast, WashU experts discuss anger s power
Students and staff from Washington University and other members of the St. Louis community protest in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in summer 2020. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)
April 1, 2021 SHARE
Division, partisanship, polarization these are all terms we consistently hear in current news headlines about the state of our citizenry and political landscape. Much of the conversation and argument about contemporary politics and social activity is about individual and collective anger and rage. But these words are often used in vague and amorphous ways.