Author: Jessica Daues

Beginning July 1, the new prices will be in effect, and all payroll deduction amounts will be adjusted accordingly.

In 1871, Calvin Woodward, one of the developers of the Manual Training School, asked his applied mechanics students to build some models for the class. He was shocked when they turned him down because they didn’t know how to use the appropriate tools. So Woodward asked Noah Dean, the University carpenter and mechanic, to outfit […]

As part of the recognition of the Sesquicentennial, a statue of the University’s namesake will be placed adjacent to Olin Library.

The softball team posted five wins to improve to 21-0. Washington U. swept a doubleheader with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point March 24 at WUSTL Field, then won three games in the 4th Annual Lee’s Sports Midwest Region Invitational. Freshman Laurel Sagartz and sophomore Ashley Johnson combined to throw the first no-hitter in school history […]

The women’s basketball team has proven to be one of the most dominant teams in any collegiate sport of the past 15 years. After defeating the University of Southern Maine in the 2000 national championship game, the Bears became the only Division III basketball team to win three straight national titles and just the second […]

When many students left to serve the government as soldiers, sailors and nurses during World War II, several campus activities were curtailed, particularly student participation in Greek life and athletics. In 1943, Eliot Review discontinued publication; Thurtene Carnival and Spring Formals were not held; and the Student Senate was disbanded. After the war, Chancellor Arthur […]

The 1983-84 school year marked the 10th anniversary of Edison Theatre. To mark the event, the Washington University Dance Theatre performed the satire Façade (below), which added a third voice to the marriage of music by Sir William Walton and the abstract poetry of Dame Edith Sitwell. The 19 dances, created by Annelise Mertz, professor […]

PakeGeorge E. Pake, Ph.D., recipient of the National Medal of Science, professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University provost from 1962-1970, and emeritus trustee, died of heart failure Thursday, March 4, 2004, in Tucson, Ariz. He was 79.

When the University Training School for Nurses opened in 1907-08, the admission requirements included “a good common school education, good moral character and a sound physique… .” No tuition was charged for the three-year program, and students received free board and lodging. During World War I, some nurses from the school joined the University’s Base […]

LevitteJean-David Levitte, French Ambassador to the United States, will deliver a lecture on “The United States and France in a World Transformed,” at noon March 13 in the Uncas A. Whitaker Hall auditorium on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.