From student leadership at WashU to her role in the Tennessee Senate, Akbari’s work has centered on coalition-building and steady progress.

The initiative strikes a vital balance between AI and commitments to student formation, knowledge development and discovery across the university’s research and education enterprises, and features work by teams lead by Political Science chair Betsy Sinclair.

WashU’s St. Louis Policy Initiative, lead by Political Science faculty member, Matthew Gabel, is tracking where food pantries are located across the region to identify gaps in access and prepare for future shortages.

Most voters are generally aware that most politicians are wealthier than they are. But do they know just how big this gap is? In new research covering the United States, Brazil, Chile, and India, Marko Klašnja and Lucia Motolinia find that the richest politicians are far wealthier than voters imagine. And while they determine that voters want politicians to be less wealthy, telling them the truth about politicians’ wealth makes little difference to their attitudes towards their elected representatives.

The WashU PhD prep program prepares first-generation and regional students like Jayden Sheridan for graduate research and academic life.