The politics of environment and Egypt’s Aswan High Dam
Nancy Reynolds is documenting Egypt’s construction of the Aswan High Dam for her second book project.
Social Policy Institute improves social mobility in Israel and beyond
The Social Policy Institute (SPI) at WashU provides a systems-level understanding of policy problems and promotes corresponding solutions.
Wastewater treatment system recovers electricity, filters water
Engineering professor Zhen (Jason) He’s lab has developed one system that recovers both, filtering wastewater while creating electricity.
In war-torn Afghanistan, poverty, lack of education associated with dementia
Poverty was closely associated with higher rates of dementia among older adults in Afghanistan, according to a recently published study by Jean-Francois Trani, an associate professor at the Brown School.
Early Christian architecture in Egypt’s Western Desert
In 2022, Nicola Aravecchia, assistant professor of classics and of art history & archaeology at Washington University, assumed the role of archaeological field director at the ancient site of Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis, one of the most remote of the oases in Egypt’s Western Desert.