Of note

Nathan A. Baker, Ph.D., Michael R. Brent, Ph.D., Philip Burkhardt and Brendan Wittstruck, Robert Criss, Ph.D., and more…

Record to go all-electronic

This is the last issue of the Record simultaneously published in print and electronic versions. The Record will go entirely digital in January 2010 to improve timely communication to the University community and to reduce printing and distribution costs.

Second-place finish for women’s soccer

A storybook women’s soccer season ended with a 1-0 loss to top-ranked Messiah College in the NCAA Division III championship game Dec. 5. The Bears ran into a juggernaut in Messiah College. The Falcons, who were making their sixth straight trip to the Final Four, outshot WUSTL 16-6 and had a 2-0 advantage in corner […]

Flu queue

Photo by Kevin LowderLong lines snaked through the Mallinckrodt Center Dec. 7 as hundreds of students took advantage of free H1N1 flu shots.

Mozart’s, Rossini’s versions of Figaro presented by Washington University Opera

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was one of the great self-made men of 18th-century Europe. Trained as a watchmaker, he rose through the ranks of French nobility to become a successful inventor, businessman, publisher and diplomat, even supplying weapons and provisions to American revolutionaries. Yet Beaumarchais probably is best remembered for his semi-autobiographical Figaro plays, two […]
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