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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.

Andrew Kastner has been named the Silk Foundation Campus Rabbi at St. Louis Hillell at Washington University in St. Louis. He will begin his duties in July.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.

Medical and occupational therapy students in the Geriatrics Outreach Group organized a Senior Prom April 17 at the South Campus on Clayton Road to help School of Medicine students get to know area older adults.

In the spirit of former U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day, the students at Washington University in St. Louis are trying this year “to stem the tide of environmental disaster,” by presenting the facts “clearly and dramatically” through a debate about the use of coal to be held April 27 and a panel discussion about the sustainability of corporate energy use to be held April 29.