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Arts & Sciences is the home of the liberal arts and the largest academic unit at , serving undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students.

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  1. 4 hours ago

    Chemist Meredith Jackrel describes how her lab's expertise in protein misfolding and neurodegenerative diseases has inspired their work on developing new, amyloid-inspired vaccine technologies aimed at elderly populations.

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    Dec 15

    New research alert from Alian Wang and Brad Jolliff! In exotic locales from Mars to Venus to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, electrical effects can alter the chemical composition of a planetary body’s surface and atmosphere in a short time.

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  3. Dec 12

    In fire-prone West, plants need their pollinators — and vice versa. "What is largely understudied is the question of how fire affects both, and how linkages within those ecological networks might respond to fire,” said .

    Jonathan Myers, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences
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    Dec 9

    ⚡️⚡️ Excited for the Power of Arts and Sciences week, Dec. 14–18! Event details & registration here:

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    Dec 10

    Research by archaeologist Jacob Holland-Lulewicz on Indigenous people of the southeastern U.S. was named one of the Top 10 Discoveries of 2020 by . Congratulations !

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  6. Dec 10

    Glimpsing the unseeable: "We can’t observe a black hole directly, but we can observe the material that’s accreting onto it. Ironically, black hole accretion disks are some of the brightest objects in the universe.”

    This artist's concept shows the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered. It is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang. Credits: Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science
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  7. Dec 9

    The American Institute of Architects (AIA) St. Louis recognized 's Bryan Hall with a 2020 Merit Award. Bryan Hall houses research space for and was recently renovated by to support enhanced scientific collaboration.

    Bryan Hall and the Forest Park Parkway overpass (Photo: Jim Diaz Photography)
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  8. Dec 8

    Saori Pastore, assistant professor in , helps explain what happens in nuclei when they decay, scatter among each other, or come into contact with subatomic particles. “We provide an accurate estimate of nuclear effects,” she said.

    Pastore
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  9. Dec 7

    Jeff Catalano, professor in , was elected a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America. The honor recognizes outstanding contributions to mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology. Congratulations, !

    Jeff Catalano
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    Dec 7

    "We need to understand these exotic objects in order to fully understand the universe and our place within it.” From the Ampersand, the innovative way physicists intend to study a supermassive black hole billions of light-years away.

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  11. Dec 6

    Researchers in will use X-ray emissions to gain insight into a supermassive black hole billions of light-years from Earth by using a distant galaxy as a magnifying glass.

    The quasar in the center of this image, which is based on data captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, contains the supermassive black hole known as RXJ-1311.
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    Dec 4

    “The Chinese space agency has demonstrated its capabilities several times now, and they have stayed on schedule with their ambitious plans ... I think we should cooperate in terms of the science. It’s a great way to do diplomacy,” says Bradley Jolliff.

    China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft stack undergoing testing. Credit: CCTV/framegrab
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    Dec 3

    With only 14 active helium plants in the world and a handful of suppliers in the U.S., shortages happen often. But when COVID-19 hit, everything from birthday parties to MRIs were canceled, and global demand for helium went down by 25%.

    The Snoopy balloon floats down Central Park West during the 2014 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images
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  14. Dec 3

    New research co-authored by Jonathan Myers in examines how fire affects both plants and pollinators as well as the ecological interactions between them.

    Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium) blooms in Yellowstone National Park, Montana. New research highlights the importance of plant-pollinator interactions in restoring ecosystems in which natural wildfire regimes have been altered or suppressed by human activities. (Photo: Jonathan Myers)
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    Dec 1

    Director, David Fike, discusses the fight against climate change taking place in the Midwest.

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  16. Nov 29

    New paper by Saori Pastore contributes to a body of increasingly accurate, descriptive calculations of nuclear structure and reactions.

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  17. Nov 27

    How do memories affect how we make sense of future changes? Jeffrey Zacks’ latest research turns on its head some popular beliefs.

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  18. Nov 27

    Abram Van Engen: “The Puritans did not come here with a sense of themselves as particularly exceptional, and certainly not with a sense of America as particularly exceptional."

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  19. Nov 26

    Today, every day, and in particular during this challenging semester, we in Arts & Sciences are so thankful for the incredible people that make up our community! See what some of our students, staff, and faculty members are thankful for this year:

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  20. Nov 26

    Barbara Kunkel and John Baugh have been named AAAS fellows! Baugh was selected in the areas of linguistics and language science, and Kunkel is honored for important discoveries related to a bacterial plant pathogen. Read about all the 2020 honorees:

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