‘Really a beautiful dormitory’
Photo by David KilperKoenig House on the South 40 opened in August and is home to 160 first-year students.The 45,000-square-foot structure is located just north of the Wohl Parking Garage off Shepley Drive and houses 160 freshmen.
English, music and PAD aim to help Katrina victims
“New Orleans is such an important home for the arts in the United States,” said PAD Chair Henry I. Schvey.
Sounds of the South: School of Social Work’s Katrina benefit concert today
Graduate students, faculty and staff are invited to the Lopata Courtyard between Goldfarb and Brown halls today for “Sounds of the South,” a hurricane-relief benefit concert featuring the Zydeco Crawdaddys. The event, hosted by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work student body, will kick off with a happy hour at 6 p.m. The […]
Campbell to read for Writing Program Reading Series
The Pushcart Prize recipient is the author the novel Q Road (2002), which was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book.
Campus Watch
The following incidents were reported to University Police Sept. 21-27. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Sept. 21 9:27 a.m. — A person […]
A simple twist of fate
Forty years ago, fate sprung an ambush on Michael J. Welch. Welch, born and raised in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent, had just earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of London and was on his way to Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States for a postdoctoral appointment. He had filled out all […]
Obituary: Magrath, University trustee; 64
Also a University alumna, she died Sept. 23 in Naples, Fla., after a long battle with breast cancer.
Blood drives to be held on Hilltop Campus
The drives will help increase supplies for the American Red Cross and the Community Blood Center of St. Louis.
Sports
Men’s soccer team wins 2 of 3 matches The men’s soccer team went 2-1 last week to move to 5-1-3. WUSTL opened the week Sept. 20 at home against Illinois Wesleyan University, winning 4-0. Sophomore Marshall Plow drilled home the game-winning goal, and senior Nick Kalscheur scored twice for the Red and Green. The Bears […]
New calculations rev up origins-of-life controversy
Scientists have performed calculations to show the early Earth’s atmosphere was chock-full of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapor.
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