Author: Jessica Daues

The No. 2 volleyball team defeated Muskingum College, 30-17, 30-23, 30-25, early on Oct. 11, and that afternoon it won the National Invitational II title over host Wittenberg University behind sophomore setter Kara Liefer’s triple-double and most valuable player performance. Liefer recorded 47 assists, 10 kills and 10 digs — her first career triple-double — […]

Beginning a Great Work: Washington University in St. Louis, 1853-2003, will be available early next year, but you get a discount if you order one now.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Oct. 9-14. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Oct. 10 11:41 a.m. — A student […]

Homecoming queen Bettey Jo Bussman (right) and her court in 1965. Homecoming is always a ritual at colleges, and Washington University is no different. Here, Homecoming isn’t just a day, it’s an entire week. This year, Parents Weekend is just a part of the Homecoming festivities. On Oct. 18, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will talk […]

Researchers are working to identify these changes so that it might be possible to halt Alzheimer’s progress before people become severely impaired.

The football team held off a late fourth-quarter rally and defeated Rhodes College, 28-21, Oct. 4 at Francis Field. The Bears had a 21-10 lead heading into the fourth quarter before Rhodes began the comeback. Midway through the fourth quarter, Rhodes tied the game at 21. But after the tying field goal, Bears senior Blake […]

Democratic Rep. Melvin Price (seated), who served Illinois from 1945-1988, visits the University’s computer center in November 1958. Some of the equipment in the center had been used to track orbits of the Russian Sputnik satellites. With Price are (from left) Edwin Roth, cartographer and astronomer; Robert Carty, technical supervisor; and Harvey Cohn, director of […]

Bijoy K. Ghosh, Ph.D., Eliot M. Fried, Ph.D., Kenneth J. Goldman, Ph.D., Jonathan B. Losos, Ph.D., Robert Pollak, Ph.D., and more…

A specialist in modern Japanese intellectual history, he was on the history department faculty from 1969 until his retirement in 1993.

Bob Arnzen (second from left), a graduate student in mechanical engineering, shows off his hovercraft to students and administrators as part of the Mechanical Engineering Student Design project in 1968. Today, students in the University’s mechanical and aerospace engineering program in the School of Engineering & Applied Science are working on a car for the […]