Newsroom Stories

The No. 1-ranked and defending national champion men’s tennis team will host the Central Regional of the 2009 NCAA Division III Championship Friday, May 8, through Sunday, May 10, at the Tao Tennis Center. The Bears received an opening-round bye and will face the winner of No. 4 seed Carthage College and No. 5 seed […]

On April 16 and 17, two Washington University teams took part in the 14th annual Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition, sponsored by the Missouri Section of the Mathematical Association of America, at Truman State University. One team, seniors Alexander Cloninger, Jeremy Diepenbrock and Jonathan Swenson, took first place in a field of 30 teams from 15 […]

The following incidents were reported to University Police April 29-May 5. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. April 29 11:06 a.m. — A […]

If you need to buy office supplies, purchase recycled-content paper, pens and other necessities. This helps create a market for the things we recycle.

Putting questions of justice in the foreground of debates about American urban and suburban politics is the goal of an academic conference Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

The Community Service Office has announced the winners of three Social Change Grants, awarded annually to students pursuing innovative ideas that serve the common good in the spirit of social entrepreneurship. The grants have a total value of $22,000. Sophomore David Fox and junior Jacob Siegel each received a $6,000 Stern Social Change Grant for […]

Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., vice chancellor for research, has been named president of State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook effective July 1.

Each year, the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences awards a prize in memory of Marion Smith Spector, a 1938 WUSTL graduate who studied zoology under the late Viktor Hamburger, Ph.D., professor of biology and a prominent developmental biologist who made many important contributions while a faculty member at the University. This year, the […]

Enola K. Proctor, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of mental health services research and the social work profession, and Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., whose groundbreaking studies have revealed the contributions of gut microbes to human health and disease, will receive Washington University’s 2009 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced.

The Washington University Police Department and Parking and Transportation Services are partnering to increase awareness on campus about the importance of eliminating vehicle idling on the Danforth Campus.