Newsroom Stories

Researchers at WUSTL and in Beijing studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China have determined that the “out of Africa” dispersal of modern humans may not have been as simple as once thought.

The Washington University Concert Choir will perform music based on Old Testament texts at 8 p.m. April 13 in Graham Chapel.

Fiction writers Elizabeth Graver and Edward Schwarzschild, both alumni of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from their work at 8 p.m. April 13 in Duncker Hall’s Hurst Lounge.

The “New I-64” construction will come close to home as contractors prepare to pave temporary traffic lanes and install temporary signals on Kingshighway Boulevard.

As Major League Baseball prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary on April 15 of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the “color barrier,” Gerald L. Early, Ph.D., professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, publishes a column that argues: “Black Americans don’t play baseball because they don’t want to.”

Photo by Mary ButkusJon Dumpys, vicar, and Brittany Kosloski, administrator, both with Lutheran Campus Ministry, look over the organization’s display at “Faces of Hope” April 5 in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

The Washington University mathematics team competing in the 2006 William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition ranked ninth in the contest out of 402 teams participating.

A physical therapy doctoral student from New Orleans takes her classmates home for spring break to help the city rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.

After opening the week April 2 with a 10-9 loss against Edgewood College, the baseball team bounced back for a 5-0 win at Westminster College April 5, giving coach Ric Lessmann his 1,300th career win.

The fifth annual International Business Outlook Conference will take place Friday, April 20 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year’s conference, “International Business in Action”, will showcase several Olin School of Business M.B.A. students who have provided leadership in finding international business solutions for global organizations.