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Working While Black

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Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Adia Wingfield interviewed for Slate podcast

Real estate and the hidden history of the U.S. AIDS epidemic

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Residential segregation based on racial and economic inequality is a pre-existing condition that exacerbates any transmissible health threat – from tuberculosis to COVID-19 to AIDS. René Esparza, assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, takes up the latter in a case study of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in his new book-in-progress, “From Vice to Nice: Race, Sex, and the Gentrification of AIDS.”

Bernstein and Kolk interviewed on KTRS Radio to discuss "Material World of Modern Segregation" chapter

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Walke and Ward receive Feldman Family Education Institute grant for Studiolab course

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Arts & Sciences graduate students selected for NSF research fellowships

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Students selected for the National Science Foundation (NSF) five-year Graduate Research Fellowship Program will receive both research funding and professional development opportunities.

A conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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On April 5, 2022, the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor visited Washington University.

Acts of love and resistance

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Mellon Mays program celebrates 30 years by welcoming a new class

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Over the past 30 years, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program at Washington University has been a positive force for diversity in humanistic research.

Launch of "Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson"

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Kate Wilson discusses modern constructions of ancient whiteness on art podcast

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Walensky shares her journey from Arts & Sciences to directing the CDC

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Even before she came to St. Louis as an undergraduate to study biochemistry in Arts & Sciences, Rochelle P. Walensky knew she wanted to be a physician. Now as director of the CDC, Walensky is one of the most prominent physician-scientists in the world. In a conversation with Dean Feng Sheng Hu, Walensky recalled her most important lessons from WashU, commented on the power of interdisciplinary collaboration, and looked ahead to what’s next for the pandemic and public health.

Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: A Discussion about "The Neutral Ground"

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