Author: Neil Schoenherr

Photo by Whitney CurtisCheryl Waites (left) and Rhonda Garver admire the paintings during the annual Washington University Nursery School gallery night fund-raiser March 7 at the Shearburn William Gallery in St. Louis. Each child created an original acrylic “masterpiece” on canvas for the event.

Other transportation alternatives exist that can help the WUSTL community overcome problems caused by changes in Metro service.

The men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams combined to have six student-athletes earn All-America honors at the 2009 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships March 13-14 in Terre Haute, Ind. The men finished tied for 32nd out of 73 teams with six points, and the women tied for 54th out of 68 with two […]

The annual Relay For Life will be held at Bushyhead Track Saturday and Sunday, March 21 and 22.

The annual Washington University African Film Festival will be held March 26-29. The event will feature films that emphasize movement and migration and their impact on African’s shifting identities. “The African Film Festival is a unique event on this campus that I look forward to every year,” said junior Chiamaka Onwuzurike, president of the African […]

Joe AngelesJames V. Wertsch, Ph.D. (left), the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy and of International & Area Studies in Arts & Sciences, walks through the park in front of the White House with the McDonnell Scholars during a tour of Washington, D.C., March 9. Click here for a slideshow of the scholars’ tour of our nation’s capital.

Blood drives at Washington University have come a long way in a short amount of time. Contention between blood banks, four-day-long drives and limited appeal have been replaced by efficient one-day, campus-wide drives at numerous University locations, which have garnered massive support from students, faculty and staff. The next drive is March 25.

The WUSTL flag is at half-staff in honor of engineering student Anthony Olasov.

Photo by David KilperBill Witbrodt, director of Student Financial Services, helps make it financially possible for bright, deserving students to get a WUSTL education.

Washington University has awarded five Bear Cub Fund grants totaling $150,000 to support innovative research that shows commercial potential. The grants were awarded to: Zhou-Feng Chen, Ph.D., associate professor of anesthesiology, of psychiatry and of developmental biology; Dan Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, of physical therapy and of neurobiology; Brian Dieckgrafe, M.D., Ph.D., […]