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Faculty, staff and students can recycle burned out or unwanted holiday light strings before, during and after the holidays at the Danforth University Center, the South 40 House and North Campus beginning Monday, Nov. 15. WUSTL’s Office of Sustainability is partnering with Green Earth Waste Recovery Inc. and Operation Food Search on the initiative, which runs through Saturday, Jan. 15.

Fast Company / FC Expert Blog Turnaround built on non-stop unrelenting change 11/10/2010 Bob Weidner has been CEO of the Metal Service Center Institute (MSCI) for nine years. When he was recruited for the position the organization was in need of a turnaround. He has been more than successful. Early on they attacked cost structure. […]

Three new student residential buildings on the Danforth Campus — the South 40 House (Phase 2), College Hall and Eliot B — have received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. All three buildings are located on the South 40 area of campus. 

Timothy Barrett, an internationally recognized papermaker, conservator and educator, will discuss “14th- to 19th-Century Handmade Papers: Recent Aesthetic and Scientific Investigations” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at Steinberg Hall Auditorium. Historical and contemporary paper specimens and artists’ books also will be on display at Steinberg.

Irish Times Anniversary of Centre for Human Rights 11/08/2010 The 10th anniversary celebrations of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway will take place on November 19th and 20th. Speakers at the two-day event will include Leila Nadya Sadat, professor at Washington University’s school of law. Link to Article CBS News Georgina Bloomberg’s […]

Acclaimed actress and human rights advocate Mia Farrow will appear on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, in Graham Chapel for the Assembly Series. Farrow’s talk, the annual Elliot Stein Lecture in Ethics, will center on the need for universal human rights and justice and is free and open to the public. 

New York Times Banning the bottle 11/05/2010 Beginning this fall, a number of colleges and universities will institute a campus-wide ban on selling bottled water, reports the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. According to the Earth Policy Institute, 86 percent of plastic water bottles in the United States end up as […]

To ensure broad communication, certain key university policies are published on an annual basis in a special policy section of the Record. All members of the university community are essential to the continued endeavor for excellence in WUSTL’s teaching, research, service and patient-care missions. Establishing and sustaining an open, positive working and learning environment for faculty, staff and students is a shared responsibility.

At recent Board of Trustees meetings, Washington University faculty members were promoted with tenure or appointed with tenure effective July 1, 2010, unless otherwise noted.

Medical Daily US team finds gene linked to deadly eye disease 11/05/2010 Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis have discovered a gene linked to the spread of eye melanoma that could throw insight on how tumors spread. “Scientists and physicians have been waiting for a rational, therapeutic target that we […]