Newsroom Stories

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Scholars from the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will take part in a community awareness forum at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, at the Schlafly Branch of the St. Louis Public Library. The forum, “Native Voices: Unveiling the Myths behind the Headdress, Moccasins […]

The School of Medicine and St. Louis College of Pharmacy are swapping about 1.2 acres of land.

Beginning March 18, students, faculty and staff will be required to use WUSTL KEY to gain access to any of the 35 University Web applications that feature WUSTL CONNECT.

The School of Engineering & Applied Science’s Sever Institute of Continuing Studies will offer a new master’s degree program in project management beginning this fall.

WUSTL astrophysicists have received a five-year, $3,225,740 grant from NASA to design and build Super-TIGER — a Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder — to collect rare atomic particles called galactic cosmic rays. Super-TIGER’s first flight is planned for December 2012.

Photo by Robert BostonLaura Jean Bierut, M.D., professor of psychiatry, helps untangle the contributions of specific genes and environmental influences on alcohol and nicotine dependence disorders.

Photo by David KilperEngineering student Justin Char (above, left) assists Zach Marine in the care of his bicycle at the Bike Maintenance Clinic Feb. 17, one of the many activities of Engineering Week Feb. 16-20.

The No. 11 women’s basketball team clinched the University Athletic Association (UAA) championship, picking up the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with a pair of victories last weekend. Four players scored in double figures as the Bears defeated Carnegie Mellon University 78-58 Feb. 20. Senior Jaimie McFarlin led WUSTL with 16 points and […]

Paul Alivisatos, Ph.D., shares his pioneering work with nanocrystals for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. March 4 in Graham Chapel.