Thomas and Jennifer Miller Hillman, philanthropists and Washington University alumni, are helping the Brown School create maximum social impact with a major gift to support its programs. In honor of the gift for the Brown School expansion, the new building on the Danforth Campus will be named Hillman Hall.

It’s one of the most recognizable buildings in St. Louis, a former department store once known for lush holiday displays. Today, the Railway Exchange sits empty, but architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have spent much of the last semester exploring adaptive reuse alternatives for the 1.2 million-square-foot structure.

New research by Daniel Link, MD, and colleagues at The Genome Institute at Washington University has revealed that mutations that accumulate randomly as a person ages can play a role in a fatal form of leukemia that develops after treatment for another cancer.

Obesity and eating disorders expert Denise E. Wilfley, PhD, has been named the inaugural Scott Rudolph University Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine. Rudolph (left) is a university trustee and supporter.

This year’s holiday gingerbread house was on display during a reception following the December degree candidate recognition ceremony Dec. 6. A replica of Anheuser-Busch Hall, the gingerbread house is on display in the brick-and-mortar version of the hall’s atrium until Monday, Dec. 15.

Staff members from the university’s Police Department, Bear Patrol and Parking & Transportation Services, in partnership with Hartmann’s Car Care & Towing, performed more than 100 auto safety checks in Millbrook Parking Garage last weekend for students, faculty and staff in advance of winter break.