Newsroom Stories

Each One Teach One, the university’s signature tutoring initiative that connects WUSTL tutors with area elementary and high school students, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.

The Women’s Society of Washington University presented the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarships to three exemplary college students at the Formal Lounge of the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building April 21.

The ArtSci Council honored eight Arts & Sciences faculty for “positively and profoundly” influencing students’ educational experiences during its annual Faculty Awards Recognition Ceremony April 12 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Seven architecture faculty from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are among five teams that have advanced to the design phase of the international competition to reinvigorate the area around St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, representatives from all five teams will meet with the public to discuss how they plan to approach the competition’s goals as they begin developing their proposals.

Whether it’s for money, marbles or chalk, the brains of reward-driven people keep their game faces on, helping them win at every step of the way, even when there is no reward at stake, suggests a surprising Washington University in St. Louis brain scan study published online today by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Alison Goate, PhD, has been named director of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, a partnership between Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Hope Happens, a nonprofit foundation that supports research into neurodegenerative disorders.

All WUSTL campuses will be tobacco-free beginning July 1 — less than 10 weeks from today. To that end, the university continues to offer tobacco cessation resources for students, faculty and staff and is assisting supervisors with the transition to a tobacco-free environment. At 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 27, in Seigle Hall, Room 304, the Office of Human Resources is sponsoring a program for supervisors titled “The Tobacco-Free Environment: Understanding the Impact.” 

Older adults with evidence of amyloid in the brain but no clinical symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease have structures in the brain that don’t communicate readily with each other, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings may be yet another indicator that Alzheimer’s damage to the brain begins to occur long before there are clinical symptoms of the disease.  

Area business students had one week to solve a real-world corporate problem in the inaugural case competition sponsored by the St. Louis Association for Corporate growth. A team of four Olin finance students cracked the case and took the top prize.

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.