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In the year that ends Washington University’s milestone anniversary, it is most fitting that the recipient of the William Greenleaf Eliot Society’s highest award is one of its greatest leaders, William H. Danforth, Chancellor Emeritus. As Chancellor from 1971 to 1995, Danforth was the University’s longest serving chancellor, leading it through one of the most critical periods in its development.

The idea is to quickly supply hiring managers with talented candidates that are a great match in particular skills and work behaviors.

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 […]