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A total of 20 projects won Global Incubator Seed Grants this month, allowing them to kickstart new research examining a whole host of issues, from the cyber defense of medical devices to the impacts of affordable housing on physical activity and health in Brazil.

Archaeological surveys led by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis suggest that coastal and underwater cave sites in southern Sicily contain important new clues about the path and fate of early human migrants to the island.

With a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a WashU team will model viral transmission dynamics among red colobus monkeys and their human neighbors in Uganda.

In his most recent book, Hayrettin Yücesoy confronts a dominant historical narrative that depicts the political thought and practice of Muslims in a rigid religious framework.

In her new book, “Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico,” Tabea Alexa Linhard follows six refugee writers who escaped from Europe to Mexico.

Sam Norwitz, 2023 alumnus and recipient of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, took Of Dishes, Taste, and Class: History of Food in the Middle East in his senior spring. He shares highlights from his experience in Professor Yücesoy’s classroom.