Newsroom Stories

Washington University recycled 393,172 pounds of waste this spring to rank No. 35 out of 346 schools in the annual RecycleMania contest’s Gorilla category. RecycleMania is a 10-week competition that pits WUSTL against other colleges and universities to see which campus can prevent the most materials from landing in a landfill.

Of note School of Medicine student members of the Internal Medicine Interest Group — Adam Althaus, Ryan Anderson, Michael Billington, Sanyukta Desai, Kristen Grant, Miquia Henderson, Katie Hu, Kenny Lin, Tina Liou, Luke Lowry, Neil Munjal, Ima Paydar, Jennifer Reeves, Joseph Song, Maria Trissal, Julia Warren and Xiaodi Wu — recently were honored by the […]

Western cultural perceptions of the human body will be the focus as the East Asian Studies Program in Arts & Sciences holds a free seminar at 4 p.m. May 4 in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall. The event is a prelude to a four-semester seminar program on Japanese views of the body that begins in fall 2010.

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 […]

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 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).