Author: Neil Schoenherr

The annual health open enrollment period for the health/dental or dental-only plans, the health- and child-care flex spending plans, the Health Savings Account and the Retirement Medical Savings Account has begun. It will continue through Nov. 30.

Scholars from across the United States and Canada will gather at Washington University Nov. 6 and 7 for the inaugural International Creole Corridor Symposium. The public is invited to attend the symposium, sponsored by WUSTL and Les Amis (The Friends), the region’s Creole cultural heritage preservationist organization, located in St. Louis. The Creole Corridor, located […]

Junior running back Jim O’Brien had 83 yards on the ground, and senior running back Matt Glenn ran for a season-high 79 yards and a touchdown as the football team snapped a two-game losing streak in a 26-14 win at Ohio Wesleyan University Oct. 24. The Bears allowed 208 yards of total offense in the […]

Photo by Whitney CurtisJunior Hao Yang (left), a biology major in Arts & Sciences, discusses his research with Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton during the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct. 24 at the Laboratory Sciences Building.

America has the potential to solve its energy crisis over the next decade, but doing so will require immediate investment in clean energy technologies, said Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, vice chair of a National Resource Council report on America’s energy challenges. The report will be the topic of a symposium to be held from 12:30-5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, in the May Auditorium in Simon Hall.

Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, will give the annual Dean’s Update to School of Medicine employees Oct. 29 from 2-3 p.m. and Nov. 4 from 10-11 a.m. in the Connor Auditorium in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. In each session, Shapiro plans […]

University News Service is now on Twitter at http://twitter.com/WUSTLnews. Twitter offers an easy way to keep up with the latest news, research discoveries and events happening at Washington University in St. Louis.

Scholars from across the country and Canada will gather at Washington University Nov. 6 and 7 for the inaugural International Creole Corridor Symposium. The public is invited to attend the symposium, sponsored by the University and Les Amis (The Friends), the region’s Creole cultural heritage preservationist organization located in St. Louis.

Four faculty from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design won a total of six 2009 Design Awards from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The annual awards honor architects, designers and crafts persons for their contributions […]

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. Astrophysics was chosen as the theme of this fall’s Saturday Science series in honor of 2009’s designation as the International Year of Astronomy by the […]