Author: Neil Schoenherr

Students react while watching the June 11 opening match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup between host nation South Africa and Mexico in the Fun Room of the Danforth University Center. Every game of the World Cup, which ends July 11, is being shown at the DUC.

An archeologist at Washington University in St. Louis is helping to reveal for the first time a snapshot of rural life in China during the Han Dynasty. The rural farming village of Sanyangzhuang was flooded by silt-heavy water from the Yellow River around 2,000 year ago. Working with Chinese colleagues, T.R. Kidder, PhD, professor and chair of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, is working to excavate the site, which offers a exceptionally well-preserved view of daily life in Western China more than 2,000 years ago.

Three WUSTL students have been awarded a State Department Critical Language Scholarship to study critical needs languages abroad this summer.

Washington University in St. Louis would like to alert audiences that traffic around the university will be very heavy the morning of Friday, May 21, due to the university’s annual Commencement ceremony.

Much of the world’s population is watching the FIFA World Cup, which began June 11 in South Africa. A majority of those fans will be outside the United States however, where soccer has never been able to gain the popular foothold it enjoys in many of the world’s nations. Several reasons exist for this phenomenon, says Stephan Schindler, PhD, professor and chair of Germanic languages and literatures in Arts & Sciences, who has taught courses on the global culture of soccer.

Few student leaders at Washington University have done more to promote issues of diversity awareness on campus than Fernando Cutz, president of the senior class and this year’s student Commencement speaker.

Four Arts & Sciences undergraduates have been awarded prestigious national scholarships. Three are receiving the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and one the Morris K. Udall Scholarship for the 2010-11 academic year.

Commencement week begins Monday, May 17, with a variety of celebrations and ceremonies designed to warmly send Washington University in St. Louis graduates out into the world.

The Class of 2010 hopes to leave a lasting impression by setting a Guinness World Record for the longest human massage chain in history.

Sitting on a long national or international flight may may actually improve your creative thinking, suggests an expert on human creativity from Washington University in St. Louis. While reading a book or watching a movie may help fill up time on the plane, idle time can be a key ingredient to becoming more creative in your personal and professional lives, says R. Keith Sawyer, PhD, an associate professor of education and of psychology, both in Arts & Sciences.