Newsroom Stories

Robert K. Jackler, MD, spoke at the School of Medicine March 9 about his exhibit that shows how the advertising industry used medical science to promote cigarette smoking in the 20th century.

McDonnell International Scholars Academy student Yu Sun Chung, a doctoral student in psychology in Arts & Sciences and a native of South Koreal, looks out over the New York Stock Exchange from the visitor’s gallery as the opening bell rings March 10. The McDonnell Scholars were in New York March 7-10 to experience firsthand American business and government.

David Frankfurter, PhD, professor of religious studies and history at the University of New Hampshire, will give the Weltin Lecture in Religious Studies at 4 p.m. Monday, March 22, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Journalist and activist Naomi Klein will deliver the annual Chancellor’s Fellowship Lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 24, in Graham Chapel.

The School of Law’s Clinical Legal Education Program will host its 10th annual “Access to Equal Justice Colloquium: Challenging Structural Impediments to Substantive Justice” Friday, March 19 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton congratulates Sabine Eckmann, PhD (left) at a March 2 ceremony in Steinberg Auditorium installing Eckmann as the first William T. Kemper Director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts.

The women’s basketball team clinched its ninth trip to the Final Four — an NCAA Division III national record — and travels to Bloomington, Ill., on Friday, March 19, to take on top-ranked Amherst College at 5 p.m. at the Shirk Center. Washington University has been allotted a block of 250 all-session tickets for the Final Four but vouchers must be purchased by 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 17. 

The average daily energy costs on the Danforth Campus is $21,268 per day. Multiply that times 365 days, and the total energy cost each year is nearly $8 million. To reduce energy usage on the Danforth Campus by becoming more energy efficient, Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration, has formed the Danforth Campus Energy Awareness Committee.

Holly Williams Leppo is an architect and vice-president at SMB&R, Inc., an architecture, structural engineering and interior design firm in Camp Hill, PA. She specializes in adapting old building forms for new uses, including the study of applicable building codes; accessibility requirements; appropriate historical forms and proportions; and integration of new technologies, building materials and […]

Walter Eckenhoff is co-founder and principal of Eckenhoff Saunders Architects, Inc. (ESA), a 40-person office based in Chicago. Over the years ESA has developed an extensive portfolio in many sectors, ranging from healthcare, banking and education to industrial, hospitality and residential projects. Born in Philadelphia, Eckenhoff moved to Chicago as a teenager. He earned a […]