Author: Neil Schoenherr

The women’s track and field team capped the 2009 NCAA outdoor track and field championships with its best finish in school history May 23, coming in fifth overall with 28 points. The team trailed Gustavus Adolphus College by six points heading into the final two events of the day — the 5,000-meter run and the […]

Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoInexperience and time give recent college graduates an advantage in solving the problems of inequity in education in the United States, said Wendy Kopp to the Class of 2009 during the 148th Commencement ceremony May 15.

Ten WUSTL students have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for the 2009-10 academic year. Seven are recent graduates, and three are graduate students. They will spend a full academic year in a host country. The graduate students, along with their fields and locations of study, are Nicholas Efremov-Kendall, archeology, Ukraine; Maria Rosebury, English teaching assistantship, Germany; […]

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Juniors Jenny Shirar (left) and Christian Frommelt cut a rug during Swing Dance Night June 2 in the Goldfarb Hall Commons.

Sawyer Want to take your children somewhere fun and educational this summer but money is tight? No problem, says a children’s play expert at Washington University in St. Louis. Your answer might even be as close as your own backyard. Video available.

A 47-million-year-old primate fossil, a purported “missing link” between primates and humans, was unveiled this week in New York. The fossil, formally called Darwinius masillae but nicknamed Ida, could, due to it being an essentially whole skeleton, shed light on the construction of the primate family tree, says an expert on primate evolution at Washington University in St. Louis.

The 17th annual W Club Golf Scramble will take place June 15 at the Meadowbrook Country Club in Ballwin, Mo.

Dennis E. Hallahan, M.D., has been chosen to head the Department of Radiation Oncology at the School of Medicine. Hallahan Hallahan will be named the first Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III Distinguished Professor in Medicine and will serve on the senior leadership committee of the Siteman Cancer Center. The appointment was announced by […]

Photo by David KilperMaster’s and doctoral students get the honor of “hooding” each other after the conferral of their degrees. The colors of the hoods represent the schools from which the graduates earned degrees.

Photo by Robert BostonAaron Hamvas, M.D. (right), the James P. Keating, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, discusses the levels of care provided in the NICU to a group of neonatologists from China and to Heather Haeberle (third from left), nurse manager of the NICU.