Author: Jessica Daues

With the time change this weekend, it will get dark earlier in the evening. The Washington University Police Department offers safety reminders as part of the “Don’t be in the Dark” campaign.

Washington University has completed its greenhouse gas emissions inventory, a key component of the University’s sustainability strategic plan. This report identifies the University’s “carbon footprint” and will be used to develop a greenhouse gas reduction strategy that will reduce the University’s impact on global climate change.

Photo by Mary ButkusStudents show off new outfits made of recyclable materials during the “Trashy Fashion Show” Oct. 20 at Ursa’s on the South 40. The show was part of the Congress of the South 40’s ECOlympics Oct. 18-23, a competition among students from each residential college to represent their college and tackle sustainability and environmental issues.

Photo by Whitney CurtisRobert Wiltenburg, Ph.D. (left), dean of University College, talks with student Soyon Park at M.I.L.D. (Mosey In, Lie Down) Oct. 15 at Holmes Lounge. M.I.L.D. is an annual event sponsored by University College, the evening and outreach program in Arts & Sciences.

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Jacques U. Baenziger, M.D., Ramanath Cowsik, Ph.D., Feng Gao, Ph.D., Mae Gordon, Ph.D., and more…

Sedelle Katz, research assistant in psychiatry from 1971-78 and a visiting lecturer in social work in 1980, died Oct. 12, 2009. She was 86.

WUSTL physics professors will explore topics in astronomy this fall during the Saturday Science seminar series, sponsored by the Department of Physics and University College, both in Arts & Sciences.

Merle T. Welshans, Ph.D., emeritus professor of finance at Olin Business School, died Sept. 26, 2009, in St. Louis. He was 91.

Photo by Robert BostonIt seems like a contradiction: scar-free surgery. But for Brent Matthews, M.D., scar-free surgery is nearing reality. Matthews, chief of the Department of Surgery’s Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, is on the leading edge of innovations to make minimally invasive surgery even, well, less invasive.