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PB&Joy food drive kicks off today; supports Operation Food Search
Wearing hairnets and latex gloves, six Campus Kitchen volunteers gather in the basement kitchen of First Congregational Church. They have two hours to prepare lunch for 40 homeless women. In the...
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Robots on Mars
sid hastings/WUSTL PhotosWhen Adam Steltzner, PhD, NASA’s engineer in charge of the Mars Curiosity rover sky-crane landing, was on the Washington University in St. Louis campus recently to deliver an...
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Time to celebrate
Whitney Curtis/WUSTL PhotosNate Quest, administrative coordinator in Specialized Masters Programs at Olin Business School, gets a serving of Pappy's Smokehouse barbecue March 28 during the celebration...
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Heather Corcoran appointed director of art
Heather Corcoran, chair of the design program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been named director of the school’s College & Graduate School of Art.The appointment, effective...
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Our Washington: Providing resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5alIdFjv-loAssociate University Librarian Virginia Toliver speaks to senior Sarah Palay, who used original manuscripts from the Special Collections’ Samuel Beckett...
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The $25 philanthropist: Assembly Series features ‘International Bank of Bob’...
HarrisBob Harris wanted to help people living in poverty who had an entrepreneurial streak, so he donated $20,000 to individuals he found on the microloan financing website Kiva.org. Then he set out to...
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Cutting phosphate in diet reduces deaths, heart problems related to kidney...
Zach SmythSeverely cutting dietary phosphate early in the course of chronic kidney disease can prevent related heart and vascular problems, a new study in rats indicates. Phosphate, an essential...
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Smoking may dull obese women's ability to taste fat and sugar
Robert BostonWashington University investigator M. Yanina Pepino, PhD, has found that cigarette smoking among obese women interferes with the ability to taste fats and sweets and may drive them to...
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum April 8 and 10
Adelaide Burr cornered Ms. Hempel during homeroom and described her costume. Adelaide was an avid appreciator of dance. Her first book report had celebrated in a collage (dismembered limbs; blue...
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Castro named Wolff Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Mark BeavenMario Castro, MD, (right) is congratulated by Dean Larry J. Shapiro, MD, after being named the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.Mario Castro, MD,...
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Brown School honors distinguished alumni
The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis bestowed one Distinguished Faculty Award and five Distinguished Alumni Awards during its annual alumni awards celebration dinner March 26 at the...
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Brookings descendant visits campus
Jerry Naunheim Jr./WUSTL Photos John Wallace, great-grandnephew of Robert S. Brookings, and his wife, Ellen (right), talk with Tenille Washburn (JD '01), a student in the Brookings Executive Education...
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$8 million to study gene-lifestyle interactions on heart health
Robert BostonWashington University investigators D.C. Rao, PhD (right), and Ingrid Borecki, PhD, have received an $8 million grant for the first large-scale statistical analysis of the gene-lifestyle...
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From Jason Collins to Michael Sam: Examining ‘watershed’ moment in American...
“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”For scholars of race, gender and sexuality, it’s no accident that NBA basketball player Jason Collins chose these words to become the first active...
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Mozart's 'Requiem' April 13
Mary Butkus/WUSTL PhotosThe WUSTL Symphony Orchestra and WUSTL Choirs will join forces for the 2014 Chancellor’s Concert April 13. A mysterious stranger arrives with a mysterious commission. The...
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2014 Relay For Life works toward a cure for cancer
Jerry Naunheim Jr./WUSTL Photos Participants light the luminaries April 5 during the Relay For Life of Washington University in St. Louis. Relay for Life is a 12-hour event held at Francis Field...
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Thurtene Carnival thrills the taste buds
Junior Nils Kjos is keeper of one of the oldest traditions at one of Washington University in St. Louis’ oldest traditions. He is a fry cook at the “You Bring It, We’ll Fry It” booth at Thurtene...
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Gary and Rachel Sumers: Finding your balance
An architect's rendering of the new Gary and Rachel Sumers Recreation Center.Growing up, Rachel Sumers never considered herself an athlete. But as an undergraduate, her initial visit to the university...
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Pow Wow 2014: The benefits of education
JERRY NAUNHEIM JR./WUSTL Photos (2)Participants in the 24th annual Pow Wow at Washington University in St. Louis (above) take part in the Grand Entry in the Field House April 5. The annual event, a...
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Keeping the humanities vital: Holden Thorp to deliver Phi Beta Kappa/Sigma Xi...
Thorp Last June, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences published a report, “The Heart of the Matter,” making the case that the humanities and social sciences are necessary for a vibrant,...
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