Excerpts from “What We Believe”

Newsboys of St. Louis: In 1910, Ina T. Tyler, a student and researcher in the St. Louis School of Social Economy (now the Geroge Warren Brown School of Social Work), studied a third of the 1,800 local newsboys, more than half of them children of immigrants, to see what their lives were like— and how this work affected their education. Her findings showed that limits on this work, which involved children as young as nine years old, were urgently needed.

Of note

Robert E. Blankenship, Ph.D., Thomas K. Croat, Ph.D., Jacqueline E. Payton, M.D., Ph.D., Frank Stadermann, Ph.D., Luis H. Zayas, Ph.D., and more…

Math teams excel in competitions

Two Washington University teams took first and second place in the Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition, sponsored each spring by the Missouri section of the Mathematical Association of America, according to Ronald C. Freiwald, Ph.D., professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences. This year’s competition was held April 17-18 on the campus of Missouri State University […]

Milestone achievement

Courtesy PhotoFaculty from the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences gathered at Whittemore House April 30 to celebrate the 90th birthday of Annelise Mertz, professor emerita in dance.

School records fall at meet at SIUE

A pair of women’s track and field records were broken at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Twilight Meet in Edwardsville, Ill., April 26. Senior Morgen Leonard-Fleckman won the pole vault at the 20-team meet, clearing an NCAA provisional and school-record breaking height of 3.75 meters. She broke her own school record of 3.72 meters, set […]

Got milk?

Photo by Joe AngelesTony Knowlton, mechanic in Facilities Yellow Zone, and his daughter, Sarah, 11, test breakfast cereal in Busch Hall during the “Soggy Cereal and the Scientific Method” session at Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work day celebration April 24.

Outstanding students honored with award, scholarships by Women’s Society

The Women’s Society of Washington University honored the legacy of two of the University’s most revered women — Elizabeth Gray Danforth and Harriet K. Switzer — at its annual meeting April 16. The society presented the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and two Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarships to three exemplary college students at the Formal Lounge of the Ann Whitney Olin Women’s Building.

Outstanding mentors

Photo by Whitney CurtisOutstanding Faculty Mentor Award winners gather outside the Women’s Building at the April 23 awards ceremony.
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