Newsroom Stories

Hillary A. Sale, JD, was installed as the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law March 25 in the Trial Courtroom, Room 309, of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

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.

Nanocages that efficiently convert light to heat are the basis for a targeted form of phototherapy that would destroy tumors without making cancer patients sick.

For years, electronic surveillance has been used to track and capture a host of evil suspects — terrorists, mobsters and spies among them. Keith Woeltje, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, relies on electronic surveillance, too. He is a modern-day microbe hunter, tracking bugs that are invisible to the naked eye but capable of causing mayhem in hospitals.

Peter Wyse Jackson, PhD (left), who has been appointed to succeed Peter H. Raven, PhD, the Engelmann Professor of Botany, as president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, visited the Danforth Campus March 3 to meet biology department faculty and to deliver a seminar on international efforts to slow or halt the loss of biodiversity.

Prospective undergraduate students can experience life on the Danforth Campus firsthand throughout March and April as WUSTL hosts Spring Preview for the Class of 2014. During Spring Preview, admitted students can take a tour of campus, and undergraduate schools also offer special programs and tours of their facilities. 

“There is no greater crime than abandoning your history.” So learns Undine, a hard-charging Manhattan social climber who is forced back to Brooklyn in Fabulation, Lynn Nottage’s Obie Award-winning satire of the African-American bourgeoisie. The Performing Arts Department  in Arts & Sciences will present the sharp-eyed comedy from Thursday through Sunday, March 25-28, in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.  

Glenn Stone, a professor of anthropology and environmental studies at Washington University, joins National Public Radio host Ira Flatow for a broadcast of NPR’s Science Friday live from St. Louis. The show will focus on the pros and cons of genetically modified crops.