Author: Neil Schoenherr

The 11th annual Service First will be held Saturday, Sept. 5, at 12 St. Louis area schools. Approximately 90 students will head to each school, helping paint indoor and outdoor murals and activities and maps on the playground and creating bulletin boards and preparing classrooms.

Juvenile male chimpanzee in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Chimpanzees in the Congo have developed specialized “tool kits” to forage for army ants, reveals new research published Sept. 3 in the American Journal of Primatology. This not only provides the first direct evidence of multiple tool use in this context, but suggests that chimpanzees have developed a sustainable way of harvesting food. A team from the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project, led by Crickette Sanz, Ph.D., assistant professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, studied several communities of chimpanzee throughout the Nouabalé-Ndoki national park in the Republic of Congo.

Photo by Mary ButkusJudge David Coar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois addresses students after the School of Law’s annual Matriculation Ceremony last month in the Crowder Courtyard of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Photo by Joe AngelesChancellor Mark S. Wrighton visits in his office Aug. 21 with Yoshio “Matt” Matsumoto (second from left), Yoshio’s son Joseph and his grandson, Andrew, a current freshman. Yoshio was sponsored by the University to leave a Japanese internment camp in the 1940s to attend classes here and had not been back to St. Louis since earning his degree in 1944.

Courtesy PhotoFor some freshmen, service in the community started even before classes began. Arts & Sciences sophomore Tobi Lee (standing), a counselor with the Leadership Through Service program, guides freshman participants in the program as they prepare to paint murals at Hamilton Elementary School in St. Louis last month.

The 11th annual Service First will be held Saturday, Sept. 5, at 12 St. Louis area schools. Approximately 90 students will head to each school, helping paint indoor and outdoor murals and activities and maps on the playground and creating bulletin boards and preparing classrooms.

Aug. 25 10:20 a.m. — A bicycle was reported stolen from a bike rack outside Park House. Aug. 26 7:48 p.m. — A bicycle was reported stolen from a bike rack between the Women’s Building and Laboratory Sciences Building. Aug. 27 8:32 a.m. — The vending machine in Tietjens Hall was reported unsecure with approximately […]

The Department of Athletics has reached an agreement with Stretch Internet to provide live streaming video of home games for football, volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s basketball. The live video will allow parents, friends and alumni to tune into home athletic contests at no cost. For an updated schedule of games […]

Each One Teach One (EOTO), the University’s signature tutoring initiative that connects WUSTL tutors with area elementary and high school students, has launched a new program, EOTO: KIPP. The program will partner with the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Inspire Academy, a new charter school for underresourced youth.

Photo by Whitney CurtisSenior Michael Fahey (left) and sophomore Dave Lee box each other during the annual First Friday celebration on the Village Green Aug. 28.