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Photo by Robert BostonTodd Zenger, Ph.D., sets a standard for excellence both inside and outside the classroom.

Jeffrey M. Zacks, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $1,548,619 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Encoding and Remembering Events Across the Life Span.” The research, also supported by the School of Medicine’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, will test how people’s understanding of everyday […]

Recruiting faculty and staff to Washington University might have just gotten a little easier. The St. Louis Regional Higher Education Consortium (STLR-HERC) has added job listings from Barnes-Jewish Hospital, one of the St. Louis area’s biggest employers. The consortium, led by Washington University, works to increase interinstitutional collaboration in faculty and staff recruitment. It comprises […]

Alberto Friedmann hasn’t let a diagnosis of a degenerative joint disease stop him from doing anything he has wanted to do in life. In August, the exercise physiologist in the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science and seventh-degree black belt received a lifetime achievement award from the Southeastern Martial Arts Hall of Fame in Orlando, […]

Terry Smith, J.D., professor of law at Fordham University and nationally recognized expert on race and politics, will kick off Washington University School of Law’s 11th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series with a timely talk on “Politics and Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Meaning of a Black President” on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The fall line-up of speakers also includes an international peace negotiator, a former government environmental attorney and administrator, a renowned human rights lawyer and author, and a nationally recognized leader in the marriage equality movement.

Web users can now have the latest medical news stories and radio releases from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sent straight to their desktop via RSS.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoAs the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate looms closer, many in the WUSTL community are hard at work preparing for its arrival. The debate is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., CDT.

Photo by David KilperStudents and staff from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum lift Thaddeus Strode’s massive canvas “The Doppelganger’s Boneyard” (2007) into place in the Saligman Family Atrium last month.

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held on campus biweekly through Dec. 1. Now in its 13th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Students were able to enjoy a variety of activities during Fall Orientation Aug. 21-26, such as dancing at the South 40 and participating in “SUp all night” in the Danforth University Center.