Newsroom Stories

Colin Gordon, Ph.D., professor of history at the University of Iowa, will speak on the “Transformation of Metropolitan St. Louis in the 20th Century,” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Brown Hall Lounge.

Photo by Ray MarklinTwenty students from local middle schools came to the School of Medicine Feb. 17 for a full scientific research immersion.

As part of WUSTL’s commitment to promoting sustainability, the Record will offer weekly “Green Your Office” tips to promote efficiency and waste reduction at offices on campus.Send your own green office tips to wugreenoffice@gmail.com.

The Kingsbury Ensemble, one of the Midwest’s premier early music ensembles, will present a concert of Classical and early Romantic works for natural horn, soprano and fortepiano at 8 p.m. March 5 in the Ballroom Theater of the 560 Music Center. Harpsichordist Maryse Carlin, instructor in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, directs […]

Poet Brenda Shaughnessy will read from her work at 8 p.m. March 5, in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge for the Writing Program Reading Series. Shaughnessy is the author of “Human Dark with Sugar” (2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and one of five finalists for the […]

A memorial service for Neville Grant, M.D., professor of clinical medicine, for nearly 40 years, will be held Saturday, March 7 at 1 p.m. in Graham Chapel.

SpectorFranklin “Buzz” Spector, professor and former chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has been named dean of the College and Graduate School of Art, both part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Spector also will hold the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professorship of Art. The appointment, effective July 1, was announced by Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts.

Franklin “Buzz” Spector, professor and former chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has been named dean of the College and Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Spector also will hold the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professorship of Art.

Students who have a passion for collecting books can compete for prizes of $1,000 or $500 by entering the 23rd annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.

An ambitious new study has added considerable weight to the claim that exercise can lower the risk for colon cancer.