Bring kids to Safe Trick-or-Treat
The Campus Y’s annual Safe Trick-or-Treat will be held from 1-3 p.m. Nov. 1 in the South 40, and faculty and staff are invited to bring their children.
Open enrollment for health, flex spending and savings accounts all through November
The annual health open enrollment period for the health- or dental-only plans, the health- and child-care flex spending plans, the Health Savings Account (HSA) and the Retirement Medical Savings Account (RMSA) will be from Nov. 1-30.
Pioneer in biomedicine
Photo by Robert BostonJacques Baenziger, M.D., Ph.D., professor of anatomic and molecular pathology and of cell biology and physiology, seems to be hooked on trying new things. That’s why he studies glycobiology, a field that is rife with novelty and uncertainty but also deep with potential for new insights.
Consider supporting Proposition M
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton addresses the WUSTL community on the importance of Proposition M.
Civil engineering no longer admitting new students
Beginning this fall, the School of Engineering and Applied Science will no longer admit students for the bachelor of science degree in civil engineering and will not seek re-accreditation for the program when it expires in September 2013.
Founders Day gala to feature Newsweek editor Jon Meacham
The Alumni Association will commemorate Washington University’s founding at the annual Founders Day ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the America’s Center.
Introducing new faculty members
Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Ph.D.,
Peter Benson, Ph.D.,
Pamela Jakiela, Ph.D.,
John Klein, Ph.D.,
Robert F. Krueger, Ph.D.,
Claire Solomon, Ph.D.,
Roy Sorensen, Ph.D., and
Margit Tavits, Ph.D.
The Ploughman Poet
Photo by David KilperWorkers admire their efforts to restore the statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, located on the southeast side of campus adjacent to Bixby Hall. The eight-foot-tall bronze statue by Robert Ingersoll Aitken is part of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum collection.
Of note
Da-Ren Chen, Ph.D.,
Philip E. Cryer, M.D.,
W. Michael Dunne, Ph.D.,
Sarah Finger,
Donna B. Jeffe, Ph.D., and more…
Luce Foundation grant underwrites study of ancient Chinese landscapes
Gwen Bennett, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $335,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History. The grant will allow Bennett to expand her ongoing fieldwork into the ancient landscape and settlements of the Chengdu Plain […]
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