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The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of two newly documented trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

Stunning, seductive and shrewd – an image of the woman spy is easy to conjure.

In the course “Not a Piece of Cake: Culinary Crossroads of Latin American Cultures,” Elzbieta Sklodowska, the Randolph Family Professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, focuses on the history and cultural significance of chocolate and many other foods.

After a pandemic pause, WashU undergrads were back at Hôpital Pasteur on the French Riviera over the summer, learning why the French live healthier and longer than anyone else in the industrialized world.

Hong Chen, a researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award to use ultrasound to induce a hibernation-like state in mammals — something that was previously considered to be science fiction.

On Dec. 26, 2004, an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a massive tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people and caused unprecedented destruction in communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean.

Jeffrey Gordon, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2024 Nierenberg Prize for outstanding contributions to science in the public interest. He is widely considered the founder of the field of gut microbiome research.

During the fall 2024 semester, the Center for the Humanities will host Araba Osei-Tutu, PhD, an education scholar from the University of Ghana.

Using novels and readings from all over the world, an Arts & Sciences course teaches students to look at the stories that exist on both sides of a geopolitical line.

Located in the foothills of Mount Elgon near the Kenya-Uganda border, Kakapel Rockshelter is the site where WashU archaeologist Natalie Mueller and her collaborators have uncovered the earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa.