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Warren Cheston demonstrates a Geiger counter to Barbara Brown in an engineering display for the Centennial Founders Day celebration in February 1953. The University Alumni Association has hosted Founders Day for about 75 years, and as part of this occasion, outstanding alumni, faculty and friends are honored for the important roles they have played in […]

Photo by Mary ButkusA huge crowd enjoys the antics of the White Rabbit during the 150th Birthday Party Sept. 14.The party drew about 15,000-20,000 people and was “a fitting way to kick off our Sesquicentennial year,” Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton said.

The Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences has launched the Office of Post Graduate Affairs; all University postdoctoral appointees may attend seminars and events.

“Professor King is a consummate scholar, unprepossessing and humble, but always present to do his indispensable part,” Dean Stuart I. Greenbaum said.

The center’s mission is to support basic and translational research in critical areas of biodefense and emerging infectious diseases throughout the Midwest.

A cancer survivor, he is leading 26 riders on a weeklong Tour of Hope bike ride across America to tout research and the importance of clinical trials.

The fall speakers will address a broad spectrum of social issues, ranging from affirmative action to neighborhood capacity building.

Jay Turner, William Wallace, Alison Whelan and Peter Wiedenbeck will receive Distinguished Faculty Awards; Robert S. Brookings Awards will go to Sam Fox and Jack Taylor.

Several of the people who shaped the University in its earlier years are pictured here celebrating Arbor Day April 22, 1905. From left are Marshall S. Snow, acting chancellor (1887-1891); Edward Mallinckrodt Sr., trustee (1902-1928); Isaac H. Lionberger, trustee (1894-1919); Robert S. Brookings, chairman of the Board of Trustees (1895-1928); Winfield Scott Chaplin, chancellor (1891-1907); […]

Estimating the birthday party crowd at more than 15,000, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlighted Washington University’s gala 150th Birthday party in a long, colorful feature story published Sept. 15. “No one could have wished for a happier 150th birthday party,” suggested the PD.