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Margaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.

One lane of Kingshighway Boulevard will be closed in each direction between Hospital Plaza and Oakland Avenue between 6:30 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. August 17-21.

A 10 million-square-foot cellular network will be built on the Washington University Medical Center campus this year as part of a new paging system. Sprint and Telecommunications Facilities Corp., the joint School of Medicine- and BJC HealthCare-operated company that supports telecommunications services, will build the network, estimated to be complete in early 2010. More than […]

While purchasing all the necessary back to school supplies in the coming weeks, incoming college students may also want to update their vaccination records. Being vaccinated is a simple way to prevent several controllable infectious illnesses, says an expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

Margaret Bush WilsonMargaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.

One lane of Kingshighway Boulevard will be closed in each direction between Hospital Plaza and Oakland Avenue from 6:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Aug. 27 and 28.

Student Financial Services can help departments locate and hire part-time student workers for the 2009-10 academic year — and, at the same time, help departments stretch their budgets a bit further. During this budget-challenged year, departments hiring eligible federal work-study students will only pay 25 percent of the student’s total earnings. The other 75 percent […]

Are you a seasoned professional ready to advance your career and knowledge of the business world? You may be eligible for the 50 percent tuition benefit offered to WUSTL staff and faculty to pursue one of two programs toward a master’s of business administration (MBA) degree at Olin Business School. The executive MBA (EMBA) and […]

Photo by David KilperTiffany Knight, Ph.D. (right), assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, identifies an invasive plant to a group of high school teachers attending the Life Sciences for Global Community degree program at WUSTL this summer.

Marilyn M. Kirk, Ph.D., research associate in biology in Arts & Sciences from 1971-1995 and lecturer in biology in 1972 and ’74, died Aug. 4, 2009, in St. Louis. Kirk, the wife of David Kirk, Ph.D., professor of biology, was 82.