Newsroom Stories

A lecture on “Violence and Social Orders: Where Are We Going” by economics Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North, PhD, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, has been rescheduled for 12 noon May 3 in Room L006, Seigle Hall, Danforth Campus, Washington University. 

Senior David Case, a chemistry major in Arts & Sciences, chats outside Holmes Lounge April 18 with Julie Jensen, his former chemistry teacher at Middleton High School in Middleton, Wis. Jensen was on campus to receive WUSTL’s Center for Advanced Learning 2010 Cornerstone Teacher Award.

Olin’s Center for Research in Economics and Strategy welcomes its second annual Distinguished Women in Economics & Strategy speaker to campus April 26 and 27: Judith Chevalier, PhD, Yale University. 

The sudden shortage of a nuclear weapons production byproduct that is critical to industries such as nuclear detection, oil and gas, and medical diagnostics was the focus as a House Science and Technology panel heard testimony today from a physics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

The new Fetal Care Center at Washington University Medical Center taps into medical and surgical services from the School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s maternity center and St. Louis Children’s Hospital neonatal intensive-care unit. The center also is the only comprehensive facility in the Midwest that offers advanced fetal diagnostics, fetal surgical interventions before and after […]

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and the Washington University Concert Choir will join forces at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 25, for the 2010 Chancellor’s Concert. The annual performance, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and will highlight the work of French composer Francis Poulenc. 

Washington University physicians at Barnes-Jewish Hospital are seeking participants for a study comparing two treatments for blood clots in the legs known as deep vein thromboses (DVTs). 

Richard E. Norberg, PhD, retired professor and longtime chair of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and a pioneer in using nuclear magnetic resonance as a practical analysis tool, died April 20, 2010, at Bethesda Dilworth in St. Louis. He was 87.

Medical and occupational therapy students in the Geriatrics Outreach Group organized a Senior Prom April 17 at the South Campus on Clayton Road to help School of Medicine students get to know area older adults.

In the spirit of former U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day, the students at Washington University in St. Louis are trying this year “to stem the tide of environmental disaster,” by presenting the facts “clearly and dramatically” through a debate about the use of coal to be held April 27 and a panel discussion about the sustainability of corporate energy use to be held April 29.