Newsroom Stories

Political developments affecting American business and new challenges and directions in political risk analysis will be the focus of a public forum from 8 a.m.-noon March 23 in the May Auditorium of Simon Hall.

Uta Grosenick, managing editor for DuMont publishers in Cologne, Germany, will speak on the development of commercial art galleries since 1945 at 6:30 p.m. March 22 in Brown Hall Auditorium.

Robert E. Wiltenburg, Ph.D., dean of University College in Arts & Sciences, will serve as president-elect of the University Continuing Education Association from 2007-08, president from 2008-09, and immediate past-president from 2009-2010.

Photo by David KilperA recent temporary installation by Kiyoto Koseki, a senior sculpture major in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, greeted drivers and pedestrians on Skinker Boulevard outside the College of Art’s Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall.

University students who have a passion for collecting books can compete for prizes of $1,000 and $500 by entering the 20th Annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.

Washington University’s sports medicine specialists will coordinate care at the NCAA Division I Men’s Midwest Regional March 23-25 in St. Louis.

The women’s basketball team (25-6) wrapped up its season with a 55-52 loss to DePauw University March 17 in the NCAA Division III national championship game. The No. 8 men’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA Division III Final Four for the first time in school history and came away with a third-place finish.

Washington University joined a consortium of leading U.S. scientific and medical institutions March 19 to warn the U.S. Congress that persistent flat funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Yixin Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received the Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Chen will use his three-year, $298,421 award to develop numerical computation software that can solve large-scale computational problems, such as those arising from ultra-high-speed networks and genetic regulatory networks. … Joy Weese Moll, reference and Web services librarian, recently presented her workshop “Social Software in Libraries” at four locations: the Lewis & Clark Library System headquarters in Edwardsville, Ill.; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; the Southern Illinois Learning Resources Cooperative Retreat at Rend Lake, Ill.; and the Kirkwood (Mo.) Public Library.

The following incidents were reported to University Police March 8-20. 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. March 9 4:52 p.m. — A call was received from Millbrook #4 regarding a suspicious male who had entered a student’s apartment at this location. The student asked the subject to leave and he did so. he student described the subject as an African-American male, 5’6″, between 20-25 years old, wearing a black puffy coat, black hat and black pants. The subject was apprehended just east of the Millbrook overpass. Nothing was taken from apartment. March 13 3:30 a.m. — A caller reported a fire in a large trashcan outside McMillen Lab. Clayton Fire Department responded to extinguish the fire. Four suspects were seen fleeing from the fire. March 14 10:12 a.m. — A complainant reported damage to a door in Anheuser-Busch Hall that occurred sometime within the past three years. University Police also responded to three lost articles, false fire alarm, two assaults, two auto accidents and one report each of burglary and drug violation.