Newsroom Stories

The Web site for Washington University’s planned child-care facility, wustl.edu/childcare, came online Jan. 25. The Web site provides more information on the university’s planned 19,900-square-foot child-care center, which will open Sept. 7, 2010. 

The exhibition “RACE: Are We So Different?” opened at the Missouri History Museum in January. The exhibition — which focuses on the history of race, the role of science in that history, and race in modern society — is free to Washington University faculty, staff and students through Feb. 27.

Washington University School of Medicine and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced in a Jan. 25 news conference in Washington, D.C., an unprecedented effort to identify the genetic changes that give rise to some of the world’s deadliest childhood cancers.

It’s time to nominate School of Medicine staff for this year’s Dean’s Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor awarded to a medical school staff member.

Kindbom receives ‘Breaking the Silence’ award Head football coach Larry Kindbom was presented the 2009 Grant Teaff “Breaking the Silence” Award at the 2010 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Convention in Orlando, Fla. The award was given because of his dedication to the prevention of youth suicide. In January 2009, Kindbom kicked off a seven-month […]

Hugh Macdonald, the Avis Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences, will conduct a concert of late works by Richard Strauss at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, in the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall. The performance, which celebrates Macdonald’s 70th birthday, will feature musicians from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and from the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences.  

Undergraduate tuition at Washington University in St. Louis will be $39,400 for the 2010-11 academic year — a $1,600 (4.2 percent) increase over the 2009-10 current academic tuition of $37,800. The required student activity fee will total $394, and the student health fee will be no more than $580. Barbara A. Feiner, vice chancellor for finance, made the announcement.

Two days before the Haiti earthquake, Lora Iannotti, Ph.D., nutrition and public health expert from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, traveled to Port-au-Prince and Leogane, Haiti, to continue her research about undernutrition and disease prevention in young children. The massive tremor changed her focus from research for the future to survival, with her team helping children in the aftermath of the quake.

WUSTL faculty from law and political science were quick to offer opinions to the news media about implications of a controversial Jan. 21 ruling by the The U.S. Supreme Court that will allow corporations and unions to spend freely in elections, a decision many expect to shift the balance of political power.

The Assembly Series annually serves up topics for almost every appetite, and this spring the series offers speakers from A to Z. Representing the broad interests of the Washington University community, the Assembly Series begins Wednesday, Jan. 27, with environmentalist Amory Lovins and concludes April 21 with playwright and director Mary Zimmerman.