Author: Susan Killenberg McGinn

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Washington University student leaders announce an event of major importance to St. Louis region.

How did our Solar System evolve? WUSTL physicists and a large team of colleagues marked the beginnings of that odyssey by examining samples of solar wind for neon and argon, two abundant noble gases. The work was published in the Oct. 19, 2007, issue of Science.

Photo by David KilperLike his research subjects, Ken Kelton is ‘changing phases’ as new physics chair

Photo by Joe AngelesEdward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor, dean of Arts & Sciences and the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, welcomes guests to the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis’ Build St. Louis Week 2007 kick-off event Oct. 22.

As reservoirs of valuable information go, nothing beats the sun. This sphere of heat and energy holds 99.9 percent of the solar system, saved in all original proportions after planets and meteorites formed. Analyzing the mix of hydrogen, oxygen and noble gases found in the sun can answer one of the biggest questions of the universe: How did our solar system evolve? Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and a large team of colleagues marked the beginnings of that odyssey by examining samples of solar wind for neon and argon, two abundant noble gases. The work was published in the Oct. 19, 2007, issue of Science.

Clara Asnes (12 years); Barbara Beck (13 years); Saul Becker (21 years); Nancy Belt (10 years); Michael Biondo (20 years); Elizabeth Bloomfield (26 years); Judith Bodnar (41 years); Jennifer Bollinger (17 years); Linda Butler (30 years); Sherry Cannon (21 years); Jean Chou (23 years); Jane D’Amico (18 years); Patricia Davis (25 years); Pearline Degenhardt (16 […]

Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut and moonwalker, will discuss “A Journey to the Moon!” on Nov. 1 in Brookings Hall, Room 300, at Washington University. His talk, which is free and open to the public, will immediately follow a public ceremony at 2:30 p.m. in which he will present WUSTL Arts & Sciences senior Lonia Friedlander with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.

Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut and moonwalker, will present Arts & Sciences senior Lonia Friedlander with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a public ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 1 in Brookings Hall, Room 300. Immediately following the presentation, Duke will give a talk, titled “A Journey to the Moon!” that is free and open to the public.

Shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, a cooking accident damaged five large windows in the South 40’s Wohl Center, on the northwest corner of the second floor. The incident was caused by a portable tabletop stove that malfunctioned when a butane fuel canister sprang a leak.

It’s been almost 100 years since Oxford University Press published the collected works of Edmund Spenser. A Washington University English professor and a team of Arts & Sciences undergraduate and graduate students are involved in a major project to publish a new edition for Oxford University Press — which will be complemented by an even more substantial digital archive.