Newsroom Stories

Beginning with tax year 2009, WUSTL employees can sign up to receive electronic delivery of W-2 forms. There are two significant advantages to electronic delivery of W-2 documents, according to Payroll Services. First, electronic W-2s will arrive approximately three weeks earlier than mailed W-2s. Second, there is no risk of employees’ forms being lost in the mail.

The following is among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.

As of Dec. 1, the Washington University switchboard — which can be reached by calling the University’s main line at 935-5000 — is being staffed from 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday instead of 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays.

Avoid waste plastic trash bags: Ask your maintenance representative not to empty your personal wastebasket until it is full.

Washington University Dining Services will only serve Florida tomatoes grown on farms that have agreed to a code of conduct for the ethical treatment of workers, announced Nadeem Siddiqui, dining services manager.

University College, the evening and summer program in Arts & Sciences, will host a Preview Night at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall.

The School of Medicine will host the Sixth Annual Art Show from Jan. 14-Feb. 11, 2010, in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Atrium.

A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at the School of Medicine has published the completed corn genome that will speed efforts for better crop varieties.

The enthusiasm of the medical school’s Energy Awareness Committee has led the group to now focus on the broader realm of sustainability.

With stimulus funds, School of Medicine scientists will look for compounds that enhance the body’s natural virus-killing mechanisms to overcome the flu.