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Construction Update is published periodically and provides information about the progress of major building and renovation projects. Information is provided to the Record by facilities management. Danforth Campus South 40 utilities Chiller and cooling tower bids are under analysis. The sewer at Beaumont and Rubelmann houses is 50 percent completed. Workers continue to install louvers […]

Born in Finland in 1910, Saarinen immigrated to the United States in 1923. His family settled in Chicago but soon moved to suburban Detroit, where his father, the celebrated architect Eliel Saarinen, began designing the campus of the Cranbrook Academy of Art. There the younger Saarinen befriended designers (and future collaborators) Charles and Ray Eames, […]

The News & Information Web site at Washington University in St. Louis provides the images below for free use by media for purposes of news coverage of the exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Jan. 30 to April 27. All other uses are prohibited. Please read […]

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Erin Presson, administrative assistant at University College, and Harvey Fields, Ph.D., assistant director for academic programs at Cornerstone, share a light moment at M.I.L.D. (Mosey In, Lay Down) Oct. 23 at the Beaumont Pavilion in Brookings Quadrangle.

The Washington University a cappella group Greenleafs will hold its annual concert, “Green Eggs and Jam,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15, in the Lab Sciences Building. The event marks the group’s 20th anniversary on campus. Besides Greenleafs, each concert will feature two additional a cappella groups per night. Cadence of […]

Acclaimed author Steve Stern, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13. In addition, Stern will host a talk on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Nov. 20.

Charles M. Wolfe, Ph.D., professor emeritus of electrical engineering and one of only five WUSTL engineers to be elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, died Oct. 18. He was 72.

Photo by Robert BostonJean E. Schaffer, M.D., the Virginia Minnich Distinguished Professor of Medicine, investigates how diabetes and other metabolic problems lead to complications such as heart attacks, strokes, atherosclerosis and peripheral artery disease.

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Erin Presson, Administrative Coordinator of Summer School and Publications for University College, and Harvey Fields, Ph.D., assistant director for academic programs at Cornerstone, share a light moment at M.I.L.D. (Mosey In, Lay Down) Oct. 23 at the Beaumont Pavilion in Brookings Quadrangle.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Nov. 4-10. 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. Nov. 6 8:59 a.m. — While investigating […]