Newsroom Stories

Washington University in St. Louis has joined a group of leading research universities in launching Futurity (futurity.org), an online research channel covering the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health, and more.

Author Rikki Ducornet, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in The Writing Program in Arts & Science, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1. In addition, she will lead a talk on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Ducornet, the is the author of seven novels, including The Fan Maker’s Inquisition (2004) — a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year—and The Jade Cabinet (1993), a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.

The office of Campus Life recently announced staff promotions and a hire. Mike Hayes has joined the University as executive director of Campus Life and director of Greek Life. Leslie Heusted has been promoted to director of the Danforth University Center. Julia Macias Garcia has been promoted to assistant director of Campus Life and assistant […]

Photo by David KilperMatthew W. Kreuter, Ph.D., founder and director of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s Health Communication Research Laboratory, brings health information to key communities.

The Living Learning Center at Tyson Research Center was designed to meet the stringent requirements for becoming one of the greenest buildings in North America. To meet those standards required solutions to environmental, architectural and legal challenges never before experienced by designers.

Photo by David KilperMatthew W. Kreuter, Ph.D., founder and director of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s Health Communication Research Laboratory, brings health information to key communities.

The age at which a person takes a first drink may influence genes linked to alcoholism, making the youngest drinkers the most susceptible to severe problems.

The new Living Learning Center at Tyson Research Center was designed to be one of the greenest buildings in North America. Jonathan Chase, associate professor of biology in the Department of Biology and Environmental Studies in Arts & Sciences and Tyson’s director; and Daniel Hellmuth, principal and co-founder of Hellmuth & Bicknese Architects, L.L.C., will deliver a talk about the Center and its challenges for the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 24 in Wilson Hall Room 214. The program is free and open to the public.

In the 1930s, the photographer Ansel Adams struck up a friendship with California painter Chiura Obata. Yet the arrival of World War II would set these two celebrated artists on radically divergent paths — paths that would, in very different ways, lead both to the now-infamous “war relocation centers” at which the U.S. government forcibly interred approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans. Next month their sons, Michael Adams and Gyo Obata, will explore the impact of internment on their respective families in a public dialog at Washington University.

Kick-off event for annual business competitions at Washington University features Jessica Jackley, founder of Kiva.org. Kiva is first online micro financing web site that connects individual lenders to aspiring entrepreneurs in developing countries. Olin Cup and YouthBridgeSEIC 2010 competitions for student and community entrepreneurs are accepting applications.