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More than 550 WUSTL undergraduate students will participate in a pilot program beginning in January 2010 to test the University’s new student e-mail and online service, Microsoft Live@EDU, said Andrew Ortstadt, associate vice chancellor for information services and technology. The University selected Live@EDU to provide e-mail, calendar and Web space to a pilot group of […]

Washington University has been awarded nearly $80 million in funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

School of Medicine scientists found that visuospatial skills begin to deteriorate up to three years prior to diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

Junior running back Jim O’Brien ran for a career-high 163 yards and three touchdowns as the football team rallied for a 44-37 victory over the University of Chicago Nov. 7. With the victory, the Bears regained possession of the Founders Cup, which commemorates the first football game played between the two University Athletic Association (UAA) […]

Photo by Robert BostonLarry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, gives the annual Dean’s Update to the School of Medicine.

An art show starting Nov. 20, 2009 at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center atrium features two painters who are mother and daughter. The artists, Leona Kremen and her daughter Paula Smith, trained at the Maryland Institute of Art and studied with prominent Baltimore modernist Herman Maril.

Trombones of the Saint Louis SymphonyThe Trombones of the Saint Louis Symphony are one of the nation’s leading brass chamber ensembles, dedicated to elevating the status of the trombone quartet and to expanding the trombone quartet repertoire. At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, the group will present a free concert at Washington University, with a program spanning four centuries.

Washington University in St. Louis will host a national conference on “America’s Urban Infrastructure: Confronting Her Challenges, Embracing Her Opportunities” Nov. 19 and 20 in the Danforth University Center. The event, hosted by a consortium of nine WUSTL schools, departments, centers and programs, is free and open to the public.

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo Services*The Pillowman*There are good parents and there are bad parents and then there are the outrageously horrible parents of Katurian K. Katurian, the writer at the center of Martin McDonagh’s macabre, pitch-black comedy The Pillowman. This month Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present The Pillowman — winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play — in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.

The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. William Acree, Ph.D., joins the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor of Spanish. Prior to joining Washington University, he was assistant professor at San Diego State University. Acree earned […]