Picturing Our Past

In 1899, the oldest medical college in Missouri became part of the Department of Medicine at Washington University when the Missouri Medical College merged with WUSTL. In 1910, educator Abraham Flexner — a member of the research staff of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching — authored a report titled “Medical Education in […]

William Danforth receives Eliot Society’s most coveted award

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.

Picturing our Past

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 […]

Environmental Initiative Colloquium to focus on education, research initiatives

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 […]

Completing the loop

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 […]
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