Newsroom Stories

“Shattering Ceilings: Celebrating Success in Pursuit of ‘The Dream'” is the theme of Washington University’s 22nd annual celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 19 in Graham Chapel.

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Students and staff members gather in Umrath Hall Nov. 15 to wrap hundreds of gifts received during Washington University’s annual Give Thanks Give Back campaign. WUSTL “adopted” 106 families in 2008.

Up to $22,000 is now available to WUSTL students for development and implementation of innovative community projects during the summer in the form of social change grants through the Community Service Office.

Photo by David KilperNew sirens have been installed on the Danforth Campus as yet another component of WUSTL’s Emergency Notification System.

Six Washington University faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Courtesy PhotoThe BJC Institute of Health at Washington University is on schedule to open in December 2009.

Douglas L. Mann, M.D., has been named the Tobias and Hortense Lewin Professor and director of the Cardiovascular Division in the Department of Medicine.

Raymond D. Miller, Ph.D., research assistant professor in genetics, died Dec. 13, 2008. He was 64. Miller was employed at the medical school from 1982 until his retirement in April 2008. In 2005, he was a member of the International HapMap Consortium, which published a high-density haplotype map of the human genome, a sequel to […]

Terrie E. Inder, M.D., Ph.D., has received a 2008 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Take a few minutes to participate in a free diabetes screening Friday, Jan. 23 at the McDonnell Pediatric Research Building atrium.