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A memorial service for Lee Nelken Robins, Ph.D., will be held at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 16, 2010, in Graham Chapel.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton received the Right Arm of St. Louis Award from the St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association (RCGA) Jan. 21 at the 173rd RCGA annual meeting and dinner at the Chase Park Plaza. A video honoring the WUSTL chancellor produced by the RCGA was recently released.

The same oil used on the Danforth Campus to make french fries is powering a truck near you. Used vegetable oil from WUSTL Dining Services kitchens is being reused as biodiesel in a dining services vehicle on campus.

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 […]

Ronald R. King, senior associate dean and professor of accounting at Olin Business School, is available for comment on case before the Supreme Court today: Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead & Watts, LLP, Petitioners v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The WUSM Student Arts Commission is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming Student, Faculty, and Staff Art Show.

Up to $32,000 is available to WUSTL students for the development and implementation of innovative community projects during the summer in the form of social change grants through the Community Service Office. A new gift from Procter & Gamble will provide an additional $10,000 in funding this year. Students may submit proposals for multiple grants […]

Photo by Robert BostonAn official from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security spoke about the H1N1 flu pandemic at the School of Medicine.

Washington University will provide free 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccinations for Danforth Campus students ages 18-24 years from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, in the Gargoyle, located in the lower level of the Mallinckrodt Student Center.

The Bear Necessities store, located in the new Umrath House on the South 40, will hold its annual holiday sale Dec. 8 and 9.