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The Women’s Society of Washington University presented the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarships to three exemplary college students at the Formal Lounge of the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building April 21.

The ArtSci Council honored eight Arts & Sciences faculty for “positively and profoundly” influencing students’ educational experiences during its annual Faculty Awards Recognition Ceremony April 12 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Senior engineering student Katharine Brown (center) shows her research project involving the university’s Formula SAE race car April 17 outside Seigle Hall, where the spring undergraduate research symposium poster presentations took place. More than 150 students participated in the symposium, which provides a forum for undergraduate students to showcase their research projects.

Honoree Joanna Perdomo (center), a junior philosophy-neuroscience-psychology major in Arts & Sciences, visits with proud father Jose Perdomo (right) and senior Emily Heins (left) during a reception for the winners of the 2010 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award April 15 at the Knight Center.

All WUSTL campuses will be tobacco-free beginning July 1 — less than 10 weeks from today. To that end, the university continues to offer tobacco cessation resources for students, faculty and staff and is assisting supervisors with the transition to a tobacco-free environment. At 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 27, in Seigle Hall, Room 304, the Office of Human Resources is sponsoring a program for supervisors titled “The Tobacco-Free Environment: Understanding the Impact.” 

Most of us return from a business trip with receipts for coffee and perhaps a glass or two of wine. Doug Wiens, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, once came back with receipts for several hundred dollars of kava root.

Washington University recycled 393,172 pounds of waste this spring to rank No. 35 out of 346 schools in the annual RecycleMania contest’s Gorilla category. RecycleMania is a 10-week competition that pits WUSTL against other colleges and universities to see which campus can prevent the most materials from landing in a landfill.

Of note School of Medicine student members of the Internal Medicine Interest Group — Adam Althaus, Ryan Anderson, Michael Billington, Sanyukta Desai, Kristen Grant, Miquia Henderson, Katie Hu, Kenny Lin, Tina Liou, Luke Lowry, Neil Munjal, Ima Paydar, Jennifer Reeves, Joseph Song, Maria Trissal, Julia Warren and Xiaodi Wu — recently were honored by the […]

Senior David Case, a chemistry major in Arts & Sciences, chats outside Holmes Lounge April 18 with Julie Jensen, his former chemistry teacher at Middleton High School in Middleton, Wis. Jensen was on campus to receive WUSTL’s Center for Advanced Learning 2010 Cornerstone Teacher Award.

The new Fetal Care Center at Washington University Medical Center taps into medical and surgical services from the School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s maternity center and St. Louis Children’s Hospital neonatal intensive-care unit. The center also is the only comprehensive facility in the Midwest that offers advanced fetal diagnostics, fetal surgical interventions before and after […]