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The Social Policy Institute (SPI) at WashU provides a systems-level understanding of policy problems and promotes corresponding solutions.

Guillermo Rosas studies the economic consequences of political regimes and the effects of political institutions on political elite behavior, especially in Latin America.

Washington University’s long-running Death to Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis (DOLF) Project is part of a large global effort to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect a billion people worldwide.

Fifteen alumni of Washington University earned Fulbright awards in 2022 to travel abroad to conduct research or to teach English.

Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks last for supportive work-family policies. Can American women look to European policies for solutions?

Washington University continues to increase its outreach across the globe with new programs that may help detect and treat Alzheimer’s.

Through a substantial endowed gift to the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University, Dutia has assisted promising entrepreneurs and high-impact entrepreneurial ventures since 2014.

Words have power, but so does the language in which they’re spoken, according to Margit Tavits, the Dr. William Taussig Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. In their groundbreaking book, “Voicing Politics,” published by Princeton University Press, Tavits and Efrén Pérez, professor of political science and psychology at the University of […]

Alexander Thompson, a postdoctoral research associate in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, updated simulations from an important climate model to reflect the role of changing vegetation as a key driver of global temperatures over the last 10,000 years. Thompson took evidence from pollen records and designed a set of experiments with a […]

Will the next generation have the experience to keep up with climate change? Through opportunities like recently developed experiential learning and a new environmental analysis major at WashU, college students are primed to help the rest of us understand the hard questions that we face in the 21st century — as well as the answers that […]