Newsroom Stories

A WUSTL team of Jon Pinyan, Huajia Wang and Eric Wofsey ranked 32 out of approximately 400 teams registered at the 2005 Putnam Competition.

A memorial service for Justin Allen Yeo will be held at 7 p.m. May 3 on the basketball court on the South 40. The rain location is the Mudd House Multipurpose Room. Yeo, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences from Arcadia, Calif., died April 16. The service is open to all members […]

The Distinguished Alumni Award recipients will be Alvin Schorr, William Siedhoff & Bernarda Wong; Gautam Yadama & Sima Needleman also will be honored.

He was famous for proving the existence of a radioactive isotope, element 94 on the periodic table, that had been postulated but never isolated.

Jim Burmeister was honored April 21-22 after stepping down following 35 years as adviser to the Thurtene Junior Honorary and Thurtene Carnival.

Schaal and Epstein are among 195 men and women elected this year by the academy, an organization formed in 1870 to cultivate the arts and sciences.

George Warren Brown School of Social Work students from various countries will offer a taste of their homelands through traditional foods and lively entertainment.

Photo by Robert BostonEmployees from Brown Shoe Company and physicians and staff from the Siteman Cancer CenterSiteman Cancer Center got quite a bargain when Brown Shoe Company, QVC and the Fashion Footwear Association of New York (FFANY) teamed up to offer half-price shoes at the 12th Annual QVC Presents “FFANY Shoes on Sale” event during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The net proceeds benefit breast cancer research and education programs across the country.

The Linguistic Profiling and Linguistic Human Rights conference will be held on campus April 28-29. Sponsored by African and African American Studies in Arts & Sciences and the Ford Foundation, the conference will explore issues surrounding legal considerations of linguistic profiling, fair housing, language restriction on the job and racial, sexual and deaf discrimination, among others.

The discovery by researchers at the School of Medicine of a mutated gene associated with a rare skin disorder should provide insight into more common diseases such as emphysema and aortic aneurysms.