Campus & Community

Washington University in St. Louis graduates Jeff Doyle, Matt Gomric, Michael Lauber and Tim Runnalls sat down with Bear Sports for a question-and-answer session to discuss their four years on the Danforth Campus and what it meant to be named an All-American.

Risa Zwerling Wrighton hosted a luncheon at Harbison House last month to introduce women new to the university to the Woman’s Club of Washington University. The organization is a way for women connected to the university to form friendships and grow intellectually through a variety of educational, service and social activities.

At a Board of Trustees meeting in May, some faculty members were appointed with tenure or promoted. Read more to see details.

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees fall meeting Friday, Oct. 4, the trustees heard special reports on the Brown School and the university’s endowment. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton also provided updates on construction projects.

When bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon, two Washington University alumni felt the impact. One’s race was halted; the other’s had just begun.

Soon after the birth of rock ’n’ roll, Washington University became a tour stop for many famous musical artists, including Ray Charles, the Grateful Dead and U2.

In 1962, along with 10 other Washington ­University students, I boarded an aging student ship in New York bound for ­Strasbourg, France, to participate in the ­university’s first Junior Year Abroad in France.

Members of the Wash. U. community follow their research goals to the far corners of the world.

Today’s newborns are joining families as the third generation to have access to so much food and so many unhealthy choices. “Obesity is an intergenerational phenomenon and is about to become ‘trigenerational,’” says obesity-prevention expert Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, the Joyce Wood Professor and associate dean for research at the Brown School.

How do we solve the global warming crisis?