Implementation of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan
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The Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences (TRIADS) has undergone a leadership transition this semester, bringing a new face to its team. Bo Li, the Stanley A. Sawyer Professor in Statistics and Data Science, has joined TRIADS as its co-director. Tammy English, previously associate director of TRIADS, now co-directs alongside Li. Learn more about Li's background and what's next for the initiative.
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What happens when you put a professor of music, the chair of WashU's performing arts department, a Hebrew translator, and a punk rock scholar of literature in the same room to collaborate? The Center for the Literary Arts’ Creative Practice Workshop has conducted this scholastic chemistry experiment throughout the Fall 2024 semester.
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An initiative co-led by Diana Parra Perez, an instructor in Art & Sciences’ new Program in Public Health & Society and assistant professor at the Brown School, aims to improve the health and lives of residents in the St. Louis Promise Zone that includes parts of North St. Louis City and North St. Louis County.
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This November, WashU Global announced the 20 winners of its 2024 Global Incubator Seed Grants. This year's funding cycle is supported by the Office of the Provost, the “Here and Next” strategic plan, and the Millard family gift to the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Five Arts & Sciences faculty won Global Incubator Seed Grants for 2024:
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Stephanie Kirk, Romance Languages and Literatures: Local/global gender activism: Transdisciplinary and trans-hemispheric knowledges in movement
- Ilaria Patania, Department of Anthropology: Understanding the role of climate change and human arrival on Mediterranean coastal and island environments
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Jennifer Wang, Department of Biology: Local protein synthesis and the assembly of the centrosome-cilium complex
- Helina Woldekiros, Department of Anthropology: Human-livestock-environment dynamics in highland Ethiopia: Ecological challenges and opportunities in ancient-modern food webs
- Xuehua Zhong, Department of Biology: Thermal stress memory for sustainable agriculture
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This Program in Public Scholarship workshop will demystify the process of crafting a book proposal and break it down into manageable steps. Participants will leave this workshop with a draft of a freshly written book proposal. Lunch will be provided.
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• The Program in Public Scholarship has hired Kelly Smits as its new editorial specialist. Previously, she was a reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat and Green Bay Press-Gazette and contributed to the River City Journalism Fund and PolitiFact Wisconsin. She holds a joint master's degree in journalism and environmental policy from Sciences Po Paris and a bachelor's degree in international studies from American University.
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