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Achievements, goals in campus sustainability
As people across the globe celebrate Earth day April 22, Washington University in St. Louis recognizes its sustainability achievements over the past five years and lays out its sustainability goals for...
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Are we there yet?
National flags mark the entrance to the 21st Conference of the Nations on climate change in Paris. On Dec. 12, 2015, Cameron Pulley, a graduating senior at Washington University in St. Louis, boarded...
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Research as Art, take two
The earth and planetary sciences and physics communities at Washington University in St. Louis gathered April 15 to consider their research from an aesthetic point of view, admiring the stylish results...
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Water bottle ban a success; bottled beverage sales have plummeted
Sales of bottled beverages at Washington University in St. Louis have plummeted 39 percent since 2009, when the university became the first in the nation to ban the sale of plastic single-use water...
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Exposure to routine viruses makes mice better test subjects
Animal models don’t always accurately predict which vaccines and therapeutics will work in humans. New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis points to the near-sterile...
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Junior Teddy Sims selected as Truman Scholar
Teddy Sims, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded the Truman Scholarship, one of the most prestigious and selective scholarships in higher education. Winners receive $30,000...
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Research reveals racial disparities in education debt
Low-to-moderate income (LMI) black students and graduates accrue on average $7,721 more student debt than their white counterparts, finds a new analysis by researchers in the Center for Social...
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Farming amoebae carry around detoxifying food
Humans aren’t the only farmers out there. Five years ago, the Queller-Strassmann lab at Rice University, now at Washington University in St. Louis, demonstrated that the social amoeba Dictyostelium...
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Media Advisory: John Paul Stevens on campus April 25
The School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis and the Assembly Series welcome to campus John Paul Stevens, who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court for 35 years until his...
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Popping off in our neighborhood
Most of the cosmic rays arriving at Earth from our galaxy come from nearby clusters of massive stars, according to new observations from the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS), an instrument...
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New center aims to fill void in drug development
Washington University has formed a new center dedicated to drug discovery, working to fill a void left by industry consolidation. (Photo: Thinkstock) The state of drug discovery is dire. A few bright...
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Architecture and the ‘Anti Object’
Braided carbon fibers strengthen quake resistance in a renovated office building housing Fab Labo, a museum for the Komatsu Seiren fabric company in Ishikawa, Japan. (Photo: Takumi Ota, Shinkenchiku)...
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Bill T. Jones to receive Humanities Medal
Bill T. Jones. (Photo: Christina Lane) Few have shaped contemporary American dance as profoundly as Bill T. Jones. Beginning in the 1970s, Jones and his late partner, Arnie Zane, tackled issues of...
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Nurturing during preschool years boosts child’s brain growth
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/embargo/JL-PNAS%20.mp3 Children whose mothers were nurturing during the preschool years, as opposed to later in childhood, have more robust growth in brain...
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Weils receive Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton presents Anabeth (center) and John Weil with the Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award Feb. 26 at Harbison House. Gifts to Saint Louis Art Museum and the...
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New Family Business Program announced at Olin
It’s a cornerstone of the American dream: starting a business, growing it, then passing it down to new generations. Now, Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis will have a new...
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Washington People: Chris Stark
It has been a busy few years. Since arriving at Washington University in St. Louis in 2014, composer Chris Stark, assistant professor of music in Arts & Sciences, has completed new works for the...
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Graduated driver licensing laws linked to reduced teen drinking
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/radio/files/GDLsanddrinking.mp3 State laws designed to help teens gradually ease into full driving privileges may have an unintended effect: lowering rates of teen...
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Multicultural geology
Missouri, home to Washington University in St. Louis, has many attractions but ready access to unusual geology is not among them. Most of the rock is buried under thick glacial deposits (soil) and,...
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Obituary: Sarah Longyear, sophomore, 19
Sarah Longyear views the Pacific Ocean in Point Lobos, Calif. Sophomore Sarah Longyear died by suicide April 22, 2016, in her hometown of Palo Alto, Calif. She was 19. Longyear’s advisers remembered...
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