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In 1901, the University was in dire need of funds to help expand the campus. Robert S. Brookings came up with the idea of leasing some of the existing campus and newer buildings to the company planning to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase (above, 1904 from Brookings Hall; the building in […]

The University’s yearlong Sesquicentennial Environmental Initiative Colloquia will continue at 2 p.m. April 21 with a program on “Educational Practices and the Environment.” The event will be held in the auditorium of Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering and is free and open to the public. A panel will feature administrators from Harvard, Stanford […]

The saying “what goes around comes around” has a particular resonance for Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science. Twenty-three years ago, as a master’s degree candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, Biswas did a thesis on heat transfer, with an eye toward solar power, with one […]

The medical school has a one-stop shop for professional editing and communications training called Academic Publishing Services.

T.R. Kidder, Martin Jacobs, Vladimir Birman

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki as part of the $56.8 million Sam Fox Arts Center.

Associate Professor Michael R. Brent contributed to the analysis of the gene set; this will make the third mammal to be sequenced.

The Department of Anatomy (now the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology) has been around for nearly 100 years. The department covers such aspects of the human body as anatomical principles and human growth and development (pictured in a 1940s anatomy lab), as well as cell and tissue biology and the structure, function and development of […]

Sarah Russell, associate dean of Arts & Sciences at Washington University, died Tuesday, April 13, 2004, of a brain tumor at her home in Clayton. She was 63. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 18, in Graham Chapel.

On April 12, nearly 50 student organizations will take over the Athletic Complex parking lot in preparation for Thurtene Carnival, the University’s oldest tradition, dating back to 1904. Thurtene Carnival 2004, themed “Cause For Celebration,” will be from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. April 17-18. It marks the continuation of the nation’s oldest and largest student-run carnival.