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Phyllis C. Rogier, departmental accountant in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, of a heart attack at her home in St. Louis. She was 55.

Bon Appétit Management Company, the University’s dining services vendor, will be offering free food samples from local farmers from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 25 in Room 276 of the Danforth University Center.

Students, staff and faculty are invited to volunteer by Feb. 27 for a new component of the Each One Teach One program: Helping high school students prepare for Advanced Placement exams.

The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability will hold an open house at 4 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Wilson Hall Third Floor Atrium.

Photo by Herb WeitmanHaving undergone a renovation, Steinberg Hall will take the spotlight at a rededication celebration Monday, Feb. 23, that includes renaming Steinberg Auditorium after Etta Eiseman Steinberg (left).

The inauguration of the first African-American president was a milestone in American race relations, but to most members of a minority, the judgment that the U.S. is now a post-racial society is quite premature. On February 25, at 4 p.m. in the Danforth University Center, several WUSTL students and faculty will gather to lead a conversation about race and identity. The Assembly Series event, free and open to the public, will be held in the Center’s Fun Room.

The Children’s Discovery Institute has awarded 15 new research grants, bringing the total investment in finding cures and treatments for devastating childhood diseases to more than $11.5 million since 2006. The new awards, which began Feb. 1, total just over $4 million and were given to 15 researchers in seven departments at the School of […]

Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, delivered “A Comparative Overview of Primate Social Organization” during the annual AAAS meeting in Chicago.

Global warming and environmental sustainability are concerns that fit neatly within the precepts of religious naturalism, said Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago last week.

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences has announced its spring 2010 Faculty Fellows. The recipients are Asad Ahmed, Ph.D., assistant professor of Arabic with a joint appointment in the Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures and in the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program; Angela Miller, Ph.D., professor […]