Author: Neil Schoenherr

Student Health Services is making available an online Web-based resource, MentalHealthEdu, to help faculty and staff members recognize students who are in distress and determine the best ways to help them.

Poet Mary Jo Bang, professor of English and director of The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. Bang was recognized for “Elegy,” a book of 64 poems that chronicles the year following the death of her son.

Poet Mary Jo Bang, professor of English and director of The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.

The third African Film Festival will be held March 27-30. The series consists of four feature films and four short films from eight different African nations, touching on themes of love, gender, family and the effects of globalization. It also will include a new youth program March 26-27.

Ancient donkey skeletons at Abydos, Egypt.An international group of researchers, led by Fiona Marshall, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication, suggesting the process of domestication may have been slower and less linear than previously thought.

Washington University will host its third African Film Festival March 27-30. The series will consist of four feature films and four short films from eight different African nations. This year’s themes include love, gender, family, and the effects of globalization. It will also include a new youth program March 26-27.

U.S. Air Force Major and NASA astronaut Robert L. Behnken, Ph.D., will make the first space flight of his career as Mission Specialist 1 aboard the spacecraft Endeavor, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station Tuesday, March 11. Behnken graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1992 with bachelor of science degrees in mechanical engineering and physics from the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

At its spring meeting, the Board of Trustees heard a report on the strategic plan proposed by Arts & Sciences presented by trustee Earle H. Harbison Jr., chairman of the Harbison Corporation and retired president of the Monsanto Corporation. The presentation is part of an overall Plan for Excellence, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Beginning March 16, a current Washington University identification card will be required of each person entering the John M. Olin Library or the adjoining Whispers Cafe after 9 p.m., University Libraries announced. Currently, card access to the library and the cafe begins at midnight. Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for information technology and dean of […]

Washington University earned an “A” in a recent Reader’s Digest report about the safety of college campuses in the United States. The University was ranked eighth out of 135 institutions surveyed. Reader’s Digest surveyed colleges and universities about their safety practices. Based on their responses, schools were assigned a grade of A, B or C. […]