Composting pilot projects begin on Danforth Campus

The university is increasing composting opportunities on the Danforth Campus through pilot programs with schools and departments. Beginning in August, visitors to Brown Hall and Goldfarb Hall of the Brown School, Anheuser-Busch Hall of the School of Law, and Facilities’ office Millbrook Building will have an opportunity to compost some of their waste.

Jim McLeod’s ‘special way’ to be remembered with special place on South 40

McLeod’s Way, a landscaped gathering place along the path from the Forsyth Underpass to the Clock Tower on the South 40, will be dedicated Saturday, Sept. 15, in memory of Jim McLeod, WUSTL’s beloved vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, who died in 2011 after a two-year battle with cancer. The gathering place, to be completed in early September, will feature wooden benches and granite and limestone walls inscribed with many of McLeod’s favorite, inspirational sayings.

New students move in Aug. 23

More than 1,700 new students move onto campus starting at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23. Five full days of orientation, better known as Bear Beginnings, take place Aug. 23-Monday, Aug. 27.

Fall career fair brings diverse employers to campus

The Danforth Campus at Washington University in St. Louis will host local and national organizations on Wednesday, Sept. 19, for the Fall Internship & Job Career Fair. The event is sponsored by the university’s Career Center. The fair will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. in the Recreational Gym of the Athletic Complex.

Applications sought for K12 Career Development program

Applications for the K12 Clinical Hematology Research Career Development Program scholars are being accepted through Oct. 22. The K12 Career Development Program is aimed at clinical or research fellows, instructors or recently appointed assistant professors committed to research in non-malignant hematology.

Design with the Other 90%: CITIES Sept. 14

Solar lanterns. Bicycle-powered cell phone chargers. A personal water-purifier the size of a large straw. Today, some of the world’s most creative, challenging and sophisticated design is found not in museums or showrooms, but in the poor, makeshift urban settlements that collectively house nearly a billion people. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Design with the Other 90%: CITIES, a major survey that aims to expand contemporary definitions of just what constitutes “good design.”
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