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Washington University in St. Louis Director of Athletics John Schael unveiled a new symbol and design for all Bears Athletics, as announced today. The new symbol features an updated, more realistic Bear mascot and a sharp new typeface that highlights Washington University’s red and green colors.

WrightonDr. Mark S. Wrighton is chancellor and professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. As chancellor, he is the chief executive officer of the University and reports to the Board of Trustees. Wrighton was elected the 14th Chancellor in the spring of 1995 and assumed his duties on July 1, 1995.

For many college freshmen, the first few weeks on campus are an exciting yet scary time. There are new friends to meet, classes to attend and extracurricular activities to join. And for many, it’s also their first time away from home — their first time making decisions completely on their own. When those decisions involve […]

Maki & Associates, TokyoSaligman Family Atrium, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual ArtsIn 1960 a young Japanese architecture professor named Fumihiko Maki completed his first-ever commission while teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. Four decades later, Maki is among the world’s premier architects, a Pritzker Prize-winner renowned for creating monumental spaces that fuse Eastern and Western sensibilities. Current projects include both the $330 million United Nations expansion in Manhattan and Tower 4 at the former World Trade Center site. Now Maki has returned to Washington University as architect of the new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, a dramatic, light-filled structure that will showcase the university’s internationally renowned art collection.

Background information on the new Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

A former college basketball player, Loomis is a physical chemist whose research interests are centered on probing and controlling reaction dynamics at the atomic level.

The Alliance is a group that will develop an action plan to improve math, engineering, technology and science (METS) learning and student achievement in Missouri.

Photo by David KilperA material created by chemistry’s Karen Wooley might someday be used as a timed drug-delivery system.Karen Wooley says that the results of her research with the polymers — the promoted release, the anti-fouling application — are “strange, if not weird, but there is so much going on here, we want to explore it all.”

Thanks to five sports that finished in the top 10 nationally this year, the Bears reached the top 10 overall for the fourth straight season.

Potential employers, real estate agents, loan officers and service providers repeatedly made racist, snap judgments about callers with diverse dialects, says John Baugh, Ph.D.