Newsroom Stories

The annual Freshman Reading Program, focused this year on Alan Lightman’s book “Einstein’s Dreams,” is designed to reach freshmen before they arrive on campus to help them focus on skills they will continue to cultivate throughout the year and their entire college careers. It also encourages interaction with members of the WUSTL faculty in informal discussions outside the classroom setting.

WUText alerts will only be issued by the Chancellor, the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of Public Affairs, the Chief of Police or the Director of the Medical School Protective Services’ Office.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Aug 9 – Aug. 21. 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. Aug. 9 8:45 a.m. — Three pieces of jewelry were stolen overnight from an unattended display that had been covered with a blanket. Total value is estimated at $650. 11:41 a.m. — Small mulch fire caused minor damage. 12:07 p.m. — Person reported very minor damage to her vehicle overnight by another unknown vehicle. Aug. 12 6:11 p.m. — A moving vehicle struck parked car. Both parties contacted. Aug 20 3:53 p.m. — Person reports the theft of money from her purse which had been left in her office over the weekend.

Bruce Lindsey, dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, has been named the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

This month, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Window | Interface, an exhibition highlighting the use of windows and interfaces as both boundaries and sites of transaction between machine and mind, data and perception, the world of the body and the world of the imagination.

Poor housing conditions contribute to the risk for diabetes in urban, middle-aged African-Americans, researchers have discovered.

Robert Buchwaldt is the only American who sits on an international committee that is seeking ways to address the volcanic threat in Ecuador.

Washington University — consistently ranked among America’s 20 best national universities — is ranked 12th again for undergraduate programs among the nation’s best 248 national universities by U.S. News & World Report, the magazine announced Aug. 17. The University tied with Cornell University for the second year in a row.

Fernando Arias, M.D., Ph.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology and head of the division of maternal-fetal medicine from 1974-1982, died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007, in Maumee, Ohio, of complications from cancer. He was 73.

The School of Medicine has joined the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC), an organization of 13 leading U.S. academic centers designed to speed the development of new myeloma therapies. Washington University School of Medicine serves as a major center for multiple myeloma treatment and research in the St. Louis area.