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Students in the Class of 2011, arriving on campus today, will be busy buying last-minute notebooks, pens, highlighters and maybe a few paint brushes. Paint brushes? More than 1,000 newly arrived freshmen will need those brushes, and more, as they volunteer their time Sept. 1 to paint, landscape, clean and beautify 13 area public schools […]

Washington University in St. Louis’ volleyball team is ranked No. 4 in the 2007 CSTV/American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Preseason Coaches Poll, as announced today by the AVCA. For weekend sports scores, go to BearSports WUSTL tallied 531 total points in the poll. In 2007, the Bears will contend with a fiercely competitive schedule, facing […]

Courtesy PhotoJeffrey Lowell (left) and Eric Shirley, lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, perform clubfoot repair surgery on a child while on board the USNS Comfort.Jeffrey Lowell, professor of surgery and of pediatrics, not only serves his patients, he serves his country, too. He was recently deployed on a mission serving in his role as a commander in the U.S. Public Health Service Reserve. Commander Lowell was deployed on the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort July 13-Aug. 6 to serve as a general surgeon while the ship was in Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

In response to the interest of students, parents and other members of the University community, the Campus Card Account (CCA) has expanded its services.

More than 1,000 newly arrived freshmen will volunteer their time Sept. 1 to paint, landscape, clean and beautify 13 area public schools to make the school year more enjoyable for students and their teachers. It’s all part of the annual Service First, an initiative that introduces first-year University students to community service in the St. Louis area.

Samuel R. Bagenstos, J.D., professor of law, has been appointed associate dean for research and faculty development at the School of Law, effective July 1, according to Kent Syverud, dean and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor at the School of Law.

Victoria L. May, Science Outreach director since 1998, has been appointed assistant dean of Arts & Sciences.

David K. Levine, Ph.D., has been named the inaugural holder of the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professorship in Economics in Arts & Sciences.

A molecular factor involved in maintaining the heart’s energy supply could become a key to new approaches to prevent or treat heart failure, School of Medicine researchers have found.

Anita L. Minor tells of her gift of a child with Down Syndrome in a recently released book.