Newsroom Stories

Terry Smith, J.D., professor of law at Fordham University and nationally recognized expert on race and politics, will kick off Washington University School of Law’s 11th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series with a timely talk on “Politics and Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Meaning of a Black President” on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The fall line-up of speakers also includes an international peace negotiator, a former government environmental attorney and administrator, a renowned human rights lawyer and author, and a nationally recognized leader in the marriage equality movement.

In this election year and with the Vice Presidential Debate Oct. 2, a host of programs, projects and panels have been developed to engage students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and neighbors in the electoral process.

Scientists at the School of Medicine, working as part of a large-scale federally funded research collaboration, have discovered new genetic mutations and molecular pathways underlying glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer and the most aggressive.

Clarinetist Scott Alberici and his quartet will launch Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11. The series, which was launched in 1996, features professional jazz musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in Holmes Lounge — a casual, coffeehouse-style setting — most Thursday evenings throughout the fall and spring semesters.

Web users can now have the latest medical news stories and radio releases from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sent straight to their desktop via RSS.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoAs the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate looms closer, many in the WUSTL community are hard at work preparing for its arrival. The debate is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., CDT.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are proposing to borrow a process used in breweries and wastewater treatment facilities to make corn ethanol more energy efficient. They are exploring the use of oxygen-less vats of microorganisms that naturally feed on organic waste produced from the ethanol fermentation process.

Photo by David KilperStudents and staff from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum lift Thaddeus Strode’s massive canvas “The Doppelganger’s Boneyard” (2007) into place in the Saligman Family Atrium last month.

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held on campus biweekly through Dec. 1. Now in its 13th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Students were able to enjoy a variety of activities during Fall Orientation Aug. 21-26, such as dancing at the South 40 and participating in “SUp all night” in the Danforth University Center.