Newsroom Stories

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006. At the request of the Missouri Secretary of State’s office, Washington University is encouraging interested faculty, staff and students to consider becoming volunteer poll workers.

School of Medicine research has found that if the brain could make the right connections, we all might be smarter.

Photo by Robert BostonStephen J. Benkovic, Ph.D., Arthur Horwich, M.D., and Carl Frieden, Ph.D., talk at the “Symposium at 77” held in honor of Frieden Sept. 21.

The New York Times named The Cottagers as an “Editor’s Choice,” praising Klimasewiski’s intricate prose and clever plotting.

A family friendly romp in the trademark Karamazov style, Life: A Guide for the Perplexed is a series of parables designed to help one survive the modern world.

Bruce Lindsey, the Paul Rudolph Professor of Architecture at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., has been named dean of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, both part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

David Chipperfield, architect for the proposed Saint Louis Art Museum expansion, and Nigel Tonks, who is leading building services engineering for the project, will both speak as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Architecture Lecture Series.

Photo by Mary ButkusM. Cherif Bassiouni (left), a world-renowned authority on international criminal justice, discusses the legacy of the Nuremberg trials with second-year law students.

In October, the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences’ Dance Program will host a weeklong series of public events with Gary Galbraith and Bonnie Oda Homsey, both former principal dancers with the Martha Graham Dance Company.

With a competition to design a Career Center video advertisement available on the popular Web site YouTube.com, the center’s staff members discovered they could draw students into the process of connecting with good career advice.