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Fall is here — time for picking apples, carving pumpkins and getting a flu shot. The School of Medicine again will offer free flu shots to its faculty, staff and students at various locations this fall. “Flu shots are for the benefit of employees and their families, and in a health-care setting, it’s particularly important […]

Photo by David KilperPatrick Gibbons, Ph.D. (center), professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, shows grade-school teachers how to make paper models showing differences in the sun’s rotation through the Department of Education’s Science Outreach program.

Are you looking for a graduate degree program that will give you the tools to help make a difference? Attend the Idealist.org Graduate Degree Fair for the Public Good from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Athletic Complex. The free event, hosted by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work in cooperation with […]

The Children’s Discovery Institute, a novel research partnership between St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University, has launched a newsletter that focuses on the work of the institute’s investigators.

How are health risks perceived internationally? How is a mother’s communication style related to depression in preschoolers? How are novel polymer systems used in antibiofueling coatings? You can find the answers to these questions and many more during the fall 2008 Undergraduate Research Symposium from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Danforth University […]

The NCAA Division III defending national champion men’s basketball team is ranked No. 1 in the DIII News Preseason Top 25 poll, as announced by the publication’s special Preseason Preview issue. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (No. 2), Capital University (No. 3), Ursinus College (No. 4) and Randolph-Macon College (No. 5) round out the top five. The […]

Photo by Robert BostonThe first of its kind in the St. Louis area, the SPOT is a one-stop, drop-in center for youth that will provide HIV and STD services at no cost.

Dancer, choreographer and creative/performance artist Liz Lerman, together with Washington University faculty, will participate in a panel discussion on the intersection of art and community. The Assembly Series program “Still Crossing: Expressing Identities, Building Communities” begins at 4 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. Panelists are Sunita Parikh, Ph.D., associate professor of […]

Slated to be the largest in the biannual event’s four-year history, the fall 2008 Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Danforth University Center.