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The average daily energy costs on the Danforth Campus is $21,268 per day. Multiply that times 365 days, and the total energy cost each year is nearly $8 million. To reduce energy usage on the Danforth Campus by becoming more energy efficient, Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration, has formed the Danforth Campus Energy Awareness Committee.

Holly Williams Leppo is an architect and vice-president at SMB&R, Inc., an architecture, structural engineering and interior design firm in Camp Hill, PA. She specializes in adapting old building forms for new uses, including the study of applicable building codes; accessibility requirements; appropriate historical forms and proportions; and integration of new technologies, building materials and […]

Walter Eckenhoff is co-founder and principal of Eckenhoff Saunders Architects, Inc. (ESA), a 40-person office based in Chicago. Over the years ESA has developed an extensive portfolio in many sectors, ranging from healthcare, banking and education to industrial, hospitality and residential projects. Born in Philadelphia, Eckenhoff moved to Chicago as a teenager. He earned a […]

Susan Pruchnicki is a principal with Bond Wolfe Architects, a St. Louis design firm that has developed a range of educational, municipal and commercial projects. Pruchnicki earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture in 1986 and a Master of Architecture in 1988, both from Washington University. She spent four years with HOK and six […]

Andrew Scott Paluba is co-founder and creative director for Rebecca & Drew Manufacturing, a New York-based fashion design and manufacturing company predicated on a revolutionary new sizing system that Paluba developed with Rebecca Matchett. Born and raised New York, Paluba earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion from Washington University in 2000 and […]

Prospective undergraduate students can experience life on the Danforth Campus firsthand throughout March and April as WUSTL hosts Spring Preview for the Class of 2014. During Spring Preview, admitted students can take a tour of campus, and undergraduate schools also offer special programs and tours of their facilities. 

Workers pour concrete to build the nearly 80-foot diameter water feature with a raised platform, which will be the focal point of the plaza in front of the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University School of Medicine.

At the spring meeting of the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton reported on a number of recent developments on the Medical, Danforth and North campuses. Trustees also heard special reports from leading medical faculty on several cutting-edge research and clinical projects.

Washington University will test its emergency sirens at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 11, as part of a statewide tornado drill. The drill is part of Missouri Severe Weather Awareness Week March 8-12.

Erin Eckstein (center, in blue), graduate student in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, answers questions about her project “Eating Habits, BMI and Caloric Estimation Among Washington University Undergraduates: An Exploratory Study” during the 15th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium Feb. 27 in the Laboratory Sciences Building.