Author: Neil Schoenherr

A 10 million-square-foot cellular network will be built on the Washington University Medical Center campus this year as part of a new paging system. Sprint and Telecommunications Facilities Corp., the joint School of Medicine- and BJC HealthCare-operated company that supports telecommunications services, will build the network, estimated to be complete in early 2010. More than […]

While purchasing all the necessary back to school supplies in the coming weeks, incoming college students may also want to update their vaccination records. Being vaccinated is a simple way to prevent several controllable infectious illnesses, says an expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

One lane of Kingshighway Boulevard will be closed in each direction between Hospital Plaza and Oakland Avenue from 6:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Aug. 27 and 28.

Student Financial Services can help departments locate and hire part-time student workers for the 2009-10 academic year — and, at the same time, help departments stretch their budgets a bit further. During this budget-challenged year, departments hiring eligible federal work-study students will only pay 25 percent of the student’s total earnings. The other 75 percent […]

Junior Candace Girod, majoring in women, gender and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences, has been selected as one of 50 United States students to the Oxfam America CHANGE Initiative. Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. Each year, Oxfam’s CHANGE Initiative brings together […]

Experienced runners set sights on nationals The men’s and women’s cross country teams each return a wealth of talent. The women return all five of their top runners from last year, and the men saw just one of its top performers graduate last spring. The women’s team finished second at last year’s University Athletic Association […]

Members of the Class of 2013 and new transfer and exchange students will soon be arriving on campus and will be welcomed with a variety of activities during New Student Orientation Aug. 20-25.

CoburnWhether your child is going away to college this fall across town or across the country, there are more ways to keep in touch than ever before. With today’s ubiquitous cell phones and access to Twitter, Facebook and texting, it may seem as though your child has never left the house. For students, there is the ever-present possibility of an available parent at the end of a cordless tether, which has the potential to hinder the letting go process, claims an expert on the college transition at Washington University in St. Louis.

Alan Glass, M.D., assistant vice chancellor and director of the Habif Health and Wellness Center, has been named president-elect of the American College Health Association (ACHA). The 3,000-member association is the principle leadership and advocacy organization for college health worldwide. Glass has been a member of the board of directors for six years and vice […]