Newsroom Stories

Marketing students at Olin Business School are gearing up for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games with a series of events to educate, entertain and raise funds for an adventure camp sponsored by Variety the Children’s Charity of St. Louis. The kick-off event for “OLINpics” begins at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Knight Center on the Danforth Campus. 

A new transportation service, Campus2Home, will begin offering students, faculty and staff shuttle service home from the Danforth Campus Monday, Feb. 15. The Campus2Home shuttle will provide a safe ride for those living in three designated areas off campus — Skinker-DeBaliviere, Loop South, and North of The Loop — from 7 p.m.-2:30 a.m. seven days a week.

Chariots, a folk-indie-pop trio that delivers stripped-down vocals and diverse instrumentation over infectious beats, will launch the annual Kemper Presents Concert Series Feb. 26. In all, the series will showcase eight St. Louisl acts working in a variety of styles and genres most Friday evenings throughout the spring. 

The Danforth Campus has more than 12,000 students, 4,500-plus faculty and staff and 5,168 parking spaces. Teams of Olin Business School students have been crunching the numbers since December in hopes of solving the campus parking challenge and winning the grand prize of $5,000 in the first Olin Sustainability Case Competition. Four teams compete in the final round Friday, Feb. 12. 

Washington University recently released an off-campus safety video that offers tips to help students, faculty and staff stay safe while living in and visiting off-campus housing.

Medical anthropologist Carole H. Browner, Ph.D., will speak on “Gender, Health and Reproduction: Transnational Perspectives” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. The lecture is part of the new Initiative on Gender, Sexuality, and Health.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown once again that “ready, fire, aim,” nonsensical though it may sound, can be an essential approach to research.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Edward J. Larson will present, “From Dayton to Dover: A Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy in the U.S.” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in Louderman Hall, Room 458. The Assembly Series program is this year’s Thomas S. Hall Lecture.

Members of the WUSTL community are pitching in to help relief efforts in Haiti in the wake of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. 

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton addresses the WUSTL community, giving a  summary of results of the plan to assure the university’s financial strength and continue its mission of education, research, patient care, and service.