An 80-year odyssey of repatriation and repair
Jewish books stolen by Nazis during World War II returned to Prague — by way of Washington University Libraries. In February 1972, more than 100 cartons of books made a cross-country journey from Los Angeles to St. Louis. Washington University paid $30,000 for the thousands of volumes that would comprise the bulk of the Shimeon Brisman Collection in […]
Cindy Brantmeier joins Advisory Board for multi-national language research study in England, Norway, and France
Prof. Cindy Brantmeier has been named to the advisory board for LANGUAGES, a multinational language acquisition research study.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship awarded to Walke
Anika Walke, the Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a senior fellowship in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie FRIAS COFUND Program.
Parvulescu wins René Wellek Prize
Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2023 René Wellek Prize for best monograph from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Parvulescu shares the award with sociologist Manuela Boatcă, head of school in the Global Studies […]
Help for the helpers: CSD builds bridges in Bulgaria
As Bulgarian social workers assist thousands of Ukrainian refugees, CSD’s Aytakin Huseynli is leading a group that offers global support. Aytakin Huseynli knows about living through war. Growing up in Baku, Azerbaijan, she was a child when the Soviet Union collapsed, protesters demanded Azerbaijan’s independence, and the Soviets invaded. She remembers people hiding in basements, her […]
WashU’s French connection
Lionel Cuillé is a teaching professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the director of the French Connexions Cultural Center.
Two WashU faculty appointed special advisers to International Criminal Court
Washington University faculty members are among the 17 esteemed experts appointed as Special Advisors to new Prosecutor, Karim A.A. Khan, of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and the director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the School of Law, will […]
International research network team probes inflammation after heart attack
An international team of researchers, including scientists at the School of Medicine, has formed a network to study the role of inflammation in heart disease, with a goal of finding new therapies to improve recovery after heart attacks. The team will study the biological processes that drive injurious inflammation after heart attacks, with a goal […]