Author: Neil Schoenherr

Photo by David KilperWUSTL biologists will play a key role in helping restore the longleaf pine communities of the southeastern United States.

Photo by David KilperSawyer helps foster creativity in the classroom and workplace

A memorial service will be held Nov. 2 for Richard D. Todd, Ph.D., M.D., the Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, who died Aug. 22. The service will be held at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center in Connor Auditorium […]

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Fall is here — time for picking apples, carving pumpkins and getting a flu shot. The School of Medicine again will offer free flu shots to its faculty, staff and students at various locations this fall. “Flu shots are for the benefit of employees and their families, and in a health-care setting, it’s particularly important […]

Photo by David KilperPatrick Gibbons, Ph.D. (center), professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, shows grade-school teachers how to make paper models showing differences in the sun’s rotation through the Department of Education’s Science Outreach program.

Are you looking for a graduate degree program that will give you the tools to help make a difference? Attend the Idealist.org Graduate Degree Fair for the Public Good from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Athletic Complex. The free event, hosted by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work in cooperation with […]

The Children’s Discovery Institute, a novel research partnership between St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University, has launched a newsletter that focuses on the work of the institute’s investigators.

How are health risks perceived internationally? How is a mother’s communication style related to depression in preschoolers? How are novel polymer systems used in antibiofueling coatings? You can find the answers to these questions and many more during the fall 2008 Undergraduate Research Symposium from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Danforth University […]

Poet Jean Valentine, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23. The talk — part of The Writing Program’s Fall Reading Series — is free and open to the public. The lecture takes place in Dunker […]