Author: Jessica Daues

The Hilltop Campus was somewhat barren in 1911 (above). Brookings Hall had been finished, and a few buildings to the north of Brookings (not pictured) were completed. In the upper-left corner is Blewett Hall, then the chancellor’s residence. The next decade would prove to be fruitful for many facets of the University. Student life grew […]

On June 16, Francis Field will be rededicated in a ceremony beginning at 5 p.m. that will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1904 Olympics and the 150th anniversary of the University. Francis Gymnasium was finished in 1903 by the Olympics Games Committee and was one of the buildings used in the third modern Olympic […]

The following is a transcript of Thomas L. Friedman’s Commencement address at WUSTL on May 21, 2004.

Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL photoThomas L. Friedman delivers his Commencement address, titled “Imagination.”Two dates — one good and one bad — have influenced the lives of this year’s graduates. Now they need to apply the lessons learned from both to their own lives.

The track and field team competed at the Dr. Keeler Invitational, hosted by North Central College May 14 in Naperville, Ill. WUSTL set three school records on the day, two of which came from the women. Junior Hallie Hutchens placed second in the 100-meter hurdles, clocking a school-record 14.47 seconds. The mark is only 4/100 […]

In 1963, the University obtained land classified as surplus property from the federal government and turned it into what is now the Tyson Research Center, a 2,000-acre field station near the Meramec River, just outside the St. Louis metropolitan area. In 1974, a sizable portion of Tyson was included in the Beaumont-Tyson Quarry District, a […]

Sara L. Johnson, associate dean and academic coordinator in the College of Arts & Sciences, died Monday, May 17, 2004 of metastatic neuroendocrine cancer. She was 47.

Carl Frieden, Jeffrey I. Gordon, John F. McDonnell and Carl Phillips can now stand proudly beside Ben Franklin, George Washington, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. Those four from Washington University in St. Louis have joined those four from history as being elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1954, Chancellor Ethan A.H. Shepley and the University privately launched a three-year, $20 million Second Century Campaign, the second-largest capital fund drive conducted by any U.S. university at the time. When the campaign went public with a four-day convocation in February 1955, it was thought that some of the campaign funds should be used […]

Viktor Hamburger, Ph.D., a founding father in the field of developmental neurobiology, lectures to a zoology class in 1960. Hamburger joined the zoology department in 1935 and chaired it from 1941-1966 before gaining emeritus status in 1968. Hamburger (1900-2001) was one of at least 15 intellectuals who migrated from Europe to Washington University between the […]