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Two corrections ran in The New York Times in association with the Dec. 22, 2003 article titled “Secret of one college’s success is aid for academic achievers”.

Washington University’s ascent from streetcar college to elite ranks of the nation’s finest research universities was the subject of a front page feature in the Dec. 22 issue of The New York Times. The article notes that WUSTL recently pierced the top 10 circle of U.S. News and World Report rankings, humbling several Ivy League institutions along the way. “Such an ascent is what almost every university strives for, but none have come close to matching Washington’s success,” states the New York Times.

Puppetry? Not just for kids anymore. Teatro Hugo & Ines — aka Hugo Suarez and Ines Pasic — create a world of unlimited, cartoon-like possibility, enlisting elements of puppetry, mime and dance to transform hands, feet, elbows, knees and bellybuttons into a colorful parade of extraordinary, oddball characters. At 8 p.m. Jan. 16-17, the Edison […]

Jeff Pike was about to meet the police when he made a terrible realization. Pike, now the dean of the School of Art, was then a junior at the Kansas City Art Institute and had been assigned to the Kansas City Police Department for a class on community graphic design. A week prior, detectives had […]

Researchers found that the treatment blocked bone metastases and reduced the development of new tumors in certain organs.

Members of the Washington University Effort for AIDS help assemble an 11,000-panel section of the Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was displayed in the Field House Oct. 14-16, 1994. The group teamed with the NAMES project and St. Louis Effort for AIDS to bring this portion of the then-27,000-panel quilt to St. Louis and reassemble […]

American artist Frank Stella has remained a prominent and innovative practitioner of abstract painting since the late fifties. Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, Stella studied painting at the Phillips Academy in Andover and at Princeton University, where he graduated in 1958 with a degree in history. In 1959 he moved to New York and […]

Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker are CEO and vice president, respectively, of Carr Lane Manufacturing Co., one of the world’s foremost suppliers of tooling components. In addition, over the last 30 years their subsidiary Carr Lane Castings — formerly Brentwood Castings, Inc. — has earned a national reputation for fabricating bronze, brass, aluminum, stainless […]

Eric P. Newman of St. Louis is one of America’s foremost numismatists. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS 1932) and Washington University in St. Louis (JD 1935), his storied career began more than eight decades ago when his grandfather gave him an 1859 one-cent piece. In the years since, he has solved […]