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Joe AngelesJames V. Wertsch, Ph.D. (left), the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy and of International & Area Studies in Arts & Sciences, walks through the park in front of the White House with the McDonnell Scholars during a tour of Washington, D.C., March 9. Click here for a slideshow of the scholars’ tour of our nation’s capital.

Since its inception a decade ago, the Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award has been given annually to a husband and wife couple dedicated to improving the St. Louis region through service, generosity and leadership. In a ceremony on February 26, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton bestowed the 10th such award on Barbara and Andrew Taylor.

Blood drives at Washington University have come a long way in a short amount of time. Contention between blood banks, four-day-long drives and limited appeal have been replaced by efficient one-day, campus-wide drives at numerous University locations, which have garnered massive support from students, faculty and staff. The next drive is March 25.

The Gateway Arch soars above the City of St. Louis. Eero Sarrinen’s awe-inspiring design is visually stunning, extraordinarily graceful and an architectural masterpiece, but it is also a mathematical marvel.

The WUSTL flag is at half-staff in honor of engineering student Anthony Olasov.

Washington University in St. Louis is the lone school with both men’s and women’s basketball teams remaining in the 2009 NCAA Division III tournament.

Last year, Chuck Rickert, a fifth-year student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at the School of Medicine, heard a show about kidney donation on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation.” One of the callers, a man in his 50s on dialysis, said his blood type did not match any friends or family, and his only option for a new kidney was to wait for something bad to happen to a younger person. The distressed man’s call stuck with Rickert, who eventually decided to anonymously donate one of his own kidneys.

Photo by David KilperBill Witbrodt, director of Student Financial Services, helps make it financially possible for bright, deserving students to get a WUSTL education.

Photo by Robert BostonStephen Rogers, Ph.D., explains his poster to Solange Landreville, Ph.D., at the Fifth Annual Postdoc Scientific Symposium Feb. 24 in the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

Residents with appropriate training can safely make the decision to administer stroke treatment in emergency cases, a new study shows.