Sports
Women’s hoops wins finale; to host regional The No. 3 women’s basketball team is set to host the 2006 NCAA Regionals March 3-4 at the Field House. WUSTL, which is making its 17th straight trip to the tournament, will face Manchester College at 7 p.m. Calvin College and Carroll College will square off in first-round […]
WUSTL to provide free Metro passes
Photo by David KilperEmployees, students and other members of the University community will be provided much greater access to the St. Louis region.A new program will provide students and other members of the University community much greater access to the St. Louis metropolitan region on public transit.
Campus Watch
The following incidents were reported to University Police Feb. 23-28. 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. Feb. 23 11:42 a.m. — A University […]
Study to determine if asthma drugs can reduce need for steroids in kids
The 30-week trial is called MARS and is part of a national study sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Interfaculty initiative
Photo by Mary ButkusThe class “American Indian Societies, Cultures and Values” is part of the Interfaculty Initiative on American Indian Affairs & features faculty from numerous areas.
Major gift from Preston Green to support the School of Engineering & Applied Science
At a tribute dinner on Feb. 27, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced an $8 million commitment from the late Preston Green to support the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and its Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering.
Commitment to cultural diversity reaffirmed
In this memo to the Washington University community, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton reaffirms the University’s commitment to equal opportunity and cultural diversity.
Many adults in the dark about aging parents
Brian Carpenter has found adult children to be so clueless about parental wishes that a random stranger might be as likely as they to guess accurately.
Poor neighborhood conditions triple risk for disabilities
The gray shading shows the areas surveyed for the study.A comparison of residential areas in the St. Louis region reveales that late middle-aged and older African-Americans who live in rundown neighborhoods with poor air and street quality are three times more likely to develop difficulties walking, standing, or lifting than those in cleaner, better-maintained areas.
Two other Mars missions heating up
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (above) is poised to go into orbit around Mars in March, then spend about six months aerobraking to place the spacecraft in a low circular orbit by this fall.Two Mars orbiter missions — one from NASA, the other from the European Space Agency (ESA) — will open new vistas in the exploration of Mars through the use of sophisticated ground-penetrating radars, providing international researchers with the first direct clues about the Red Planet’s subsurface structure. Roger Phillips, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, is participating in both the Mars Express (ESA) and NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) missions by lending his expertise in radar. Phillips says that the combination of the radars on the two missions will provide important and unique data sets that will directly map the structure of the upper portions of the interior of Mars. More…
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