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WUSTL will celebrate Campus Sustainability Day Wednesday, Oct. 20, and many sustainability-themed events will be held in late October throughout the Danforth and Medical campuses. Campus Sustainability Day is held to bring attention to the achievements and challenges for students, faculty and staff in working to instill sustainability principles in higher education institutions. 

WUSTL alumnus Adam Ross returns to campus on Oct 19. at 7 p.m. to read and discuss his new novel, Mr. Peanut, a dark look at the complexities of marriage.

The Australian A ‘Mike’ found in buffalo? 10/10/2010 A family in upstate New York may have had an unfinished Michelangelo painting hanging on their living room wall for years. Michelangelo expert William Wallace, a professor of architecture and art history at Washington University in St. Louis, said he saw the painting before it had been […]

Jill Edwards, project manager for university accreditation programs, and members of the Gateway Battalion Army ROTC pack boxes of donated home-baked goods, snacks, batteries, toiletries and more to send in care packages to U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan Oct. 1. The WUSTL military care package group surpassed five tons of goods donated by the WUSTL community and mailed overseas to soldiers since the group formed in March 2004.

William E. Buhro, PhD, the George E. Pake Professor in Arts & Sciences, has been selected as a fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS Fellows Program recognizes members for their contributions to the chemical sciences and outstanding service to the society. … Yixin Chen, PhD, and Chenyang Lu, PhD, both associate professors […]

Discovery News Laser will melt your brain (tumor, that Is) 10/8/2010 A laser beam has been developed that can cook brain tumors. The research from Washington University could help save the lives of people with, until now, inoperable brain tumors, and could soon be extended to destroy other tumors in other parts of the body […]

Cynthia Enloe, PhD, research professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment and director of the women’s studies department at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., will discuss the “Invisible Costs of War” for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium.

Financial Times (UK) Alphaville Blog Rating agency multiplicity 10/06/10 A new working paper — by Bo Becker of Harvard Business School and Todd Milbourn from Washington University — asks just how increased competition affects the ratings industry? Their study explores how Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s responded to the rapid growth of then-upstart Fitch, in […]

It’s time to Give Thanks Give Back. The annual holiday gift-giving drive begins its push Monday, Oct. 11, with a four-day promotional campaign to get students, staff and faculty involved in giving back to the St. Louis-area community for the holidays.

Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth cuts the ribbon with his daughter Maebelle Reed (left) and daughter-in-law, Tina Danforth (right), during the dedication of a bench and arbor at the WUSTL Woman’s Club Elizabeth Gray Danforth Butterfly Garden Commemoration Sept. 29. The commemoration was part of the Woman’s Club yearlong Centennial Celebration.