Author: Neil Schoenherr

Wild baboons in Africa forage for food.To watch the 5 o’clock news every night, you’d think man was born to be destructive, violent and antagonistic. But that’s just not the case, argue numerous prominent researchers who will gather at Washington University in St. Louis March 12-14 to discuss the nature of human sociality. The conference, titled “Man the Hunted: The Origin and Nature of Human Sociality, Altruism and Well-Being,” will be the first of its kind to include academics from around the world and across multiple disciplines — anthropology, psychiatry, human evolution, biology, religion, education and medicine — to focus on the evolution of cooperation, altruism and sociality and possible factors that led to the evolution of these characteristics in primates and humans.

The annual George Washington Week, beginning today, will feature horse and buggy rides, birthday cake, appearances by a George Washington look-alike, cherry pie and tricorn hats. It is sponsored by the sophomore honorary Lock & Chain.

A new Weight Watchers at Work program is beginning March 2 on the Danforth Campus. Payment of $156 is due Feb. 23. The program will run for 12 weeks, through May 25.

The Office of Human Resources announces the January winners of the Your Health Snapshot contest.

Best-selling suspense author Ridley Pearson will read the children’s book, “The Story of Ferdinand” at 4 p.m. Sept. 20 in the University’s Campus Store on the Danforth Campus as part of the national “Read for the Record” program.

If you see a distinguished-looking gentleman with a white wig and long topcoat riding a horse-drawn buggy around campus next week, don’t be alarmed. It’s just George Washington. The annual George Washington Week, Feb. 16-20, will feature horse and buggy rides, birthday cake, appearances by “George” himself, cherry pie and tricorn hats.

A mandible from a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and being studied by Erik Trinkaus Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences.

The WUSTL Police Department again is assisting the Kurt Warner First Things First Foundation and their annual Warners’ Warm-up winter-coat drive. Through Dec. 3, the WUPD office on Shepley Drive in the South 40 will serve as a drop-off location for members of the University community to donate new or gently used winter coats. In […]

Arts & Sciences undergraduates made another impressive showing in their annual quest for prestigious national scholarships and fellowships, as three students receive the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and three receive the Morris K. Udall Scholarship for the 2007-08 academic year.

(left to right) Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton chats with Patrick Eisenlohr, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences; and Michael Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, during the Feb. 28 Faculty Associates Program 10th anniversary celebration in the Liggett/Koenig Residential College main commons.