Women’s basketball team headed to record ninth Final Four
The women’s basketball team clinched its ninth trip to the Final Four — an NCAA Division III national record — and travels to Bloomington, Ill., on Friday, March 19, to take on top-ranked Amherst College at 5 p.m. at the Shirk Center. Washington University has been allotted a block of 250 all-session tickets for the Final Four but vouchers must be purchased by 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 17.
March 15, 2010
Faculty, staff and student news and achievements for the week of March 15, 2010.
Sports update March 15
Sports updates for week of March 15
Future head of Missouri Botanical Garden tours campus
Peter Wyse Jackson, PhD (left), who has been appointed to succeed Peter H. Raven, PhD, the Engelmann Professor of Botany, as president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, visited the Danforth Campus March 3 to meet biology department faculty and to deliver a seminar on international efforts to slow or halt the loss of biodiversity.
Sports update March 8
WUSTL sports update for week of March 8, 2010.
Trustees meet, hear reports on cutting-edge medical research
At the spring meeting of the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton reported on a number of recent developments on the Medical, Danforth and North campuses. Trustees also heard special reports from leading medical faculty on several cutting-edge research and clinical projects.
Men’s, women’s basketball teams head to NCAA tournament
Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams are headed to the NCAA Division III tournament, which begins this weekend for both squads. The men begin at home as hosts of the first two rounds, while the women travel to Crestview Hills, Ky., to begin their postseason play.
Sports update Feb. 22
Sports update for the week of Feb. 22.
‘Queer in the Midwest’ law conference Feb. 25-27
OUTlaw, the student- run LGBT awareness, advocacy, support, and social group at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, will host “Queer in the Midwest,” the annual Midwest LGBT law conference Feb. 25-27
Medieval historian Bynum to speak on miracles
Medieval religious historian and scholar Caroline Walker Bynum, Ph.D., will give the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities lecture as part of the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, in the Women’s Building Lounge. Bynum’s talk, “Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles and Their Theorists,” will focus on the era between 1150 and 1550 when many Christians in western Europe made pilgrimages to venerate material objects that allegedly erupted into animation.
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