During move-out, donate extra items to ‘Share Our Stuff’
To reduce waste and share goods typically thrown away during campus and off-campus move-out with people in need, WUSTL campus groups are organizing “Share Our Stuff” drop-offs on and off campus this spring and summer to benefit Operation Food Search, the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Lydia’s House.
Model of mentoring
Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.The Graduate Student Senate held its 10th annual Outstanding Faculty Mentor awards ceremony and reception April 15 at the Danforth University Center. Receiving the awards for outstanding mentoring are Arts & Sciences faculty (from left): Wayne Fields, Ph.D., Stephanie Kirk, Ph.D., James C. Morley, Ph.D., J. Dewey Holten, Ph.D., Angela L. Miller, Ph.D., and James F. Spriggs, Ph.D. Not pictured is Mona Lena Krook, Ph.D.
Disney executive Fedor to speak
WUSTL alumnus Dexter Fedor will examine “The Creative Life of a Walt Disney Executive from the Inside Out” during a talk at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at 3 p.m. Friday, April 24 in Steinberg Hall.
Last chance
Courtesy PhotoThe Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum exhibit “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future,” the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish-American architect of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, closes its St. Louis run Monday, April 27.
Three elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three WUSTL professors have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are: Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences; James V. Wertsch, Ph.D., the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy; and Wayne Yokoyama, M.D., the Sam J. Levin and Audrey Loew Levin Chair for Research on Arthritis, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Arthritis and Related Disorders.
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Sustainability efforts helped by redistributing unused food
Donating unused food is one way WUSTL tries to “reach out” to the St. Louis community, said Feed St. Louis president Karin Underwood, a sophomore biology major in Arts & Sciences.
Thank you, and you!
Photo by Whitney CurtisLinda Pike, Ph.D. (right), associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, and her husband, J. Evan Sadler, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, receive wrapped silver platters from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton in recognition for both professors’ 25 years of service to Washington University during a reception April 14 at Harbison House.
Campus Watch
The following incidents were reported to University Police April 15-21. 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 16 12:39 p.m. — A woman […]
Libraries host talk on Jewish historical thought
Martin Jacobs, Ph.D., acting director of the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program in Arts & Sciences and associate professor of rabbinic studies, will present a lecture titled “Hebrew Belles Lettres and the Memory of Spain: Ibn Verga’s ‘Staff of Judah’ — An Early Printed Book from Washington University’s Shimeon Brisman Collection in Jewish […]
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