Landis
Michael Landis, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis – along with Felipe Zapata from the University of California, Los Angeles, Nina Rønsted from the National Tropical Botanical Garden and Warren Wagner from the Smithsonian Natural History Museum – received a total of $1.12 million from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Modeling the Origin and Evolution of Hawaiian Plants.”
The research team will focus on 12 understudied plant groups – including Kadua, Wikstroemia and Psychotria – using new sequencing and modeling techniques to gain a broader idea of how Hawaiian plant diversity originated. The project includes conservation and educational components as well, including collecting new wild specimens for the National Tropical Botanical Garden herbarium.
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WashU Expert: Biden energy plan is aggressive, but much can be done
Geophysicist Michael Wysession, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, teaches a popular undergraduate course called “Energy and the Environment” and is author of The Great Courses lecture series “The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained.” Here Wysession breaks down President-elect Joe Biden’s 9-point Energy Plan, point-by-point, and provides his perspective on what is most doable:
“Anything Biden does will be a vast improvement.”
Michael Wysession
“Reverse the Trump damage and then some. Biden wants to initiate, reinstate and/or increase vehicle fuel economy standards, methane pollution limits and bans on new oil and gas leases. Car companies have been focusing their R&D on meeting high mileage standards, particularly by a shift to electric vehicles (EVs), so they don’t mind high standards as long as the playing
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Geophysicist Michael Wysession, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, teaches a popular undergraduate course called “Energy and the Environment” and is author of The Great Courses lecture series “The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained.” Here Wysession breaks down President-elect Joe Biden’s 9-point energy plan, point-by-point, and provides his perspective on what is most doable:
“Anything Biden does will be a vast improvement.”
Michael Wysession
“Reverse the Trump damage and then some. Biden wants to initiate, reinstate and/or increase vehicle fuel economy standards, methane pollution limits and bans on new oil and gas leases. Car companies have been focusing their R&D on meeting high mileage standards, particularly by a shift to electric vehicles (EVs), so they don’t mind high standards as long as the playing field is level. Big petroleum companies are frustrate
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Every Martin Luther King Day, Lerone Martin, director of American culture studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, re-reads the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
“It’s a wonderful piece that lays out the principles of nonviolent protest,” said Martin, who is also associate professor of religion and politics and of African and African American studies. “I love how King displays his commitment to nonviolence is a lifestyle, not just as a tactic for protest, but an all encompassing worldview. It was an important message then and an important message today.”
For the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration, Martin will explore King’s legacy with Peniel E. Joseph, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin and author of “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.” Published in 2020, the book challenges persistent misconceptions about the leaders’ relationship and quests f
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