Newsroom Stories

Based upon research done in northeastern Louisiana, anthropology’s T.R. Kidder thinks the traditional viewpoint could be completely wrong.

Women runners claim third title of year The women’s cross country team claimed its third team title of the season, while the men finished seventh at the Border War Invitational. The meet was hosted by the University of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. The No. 1-ranked women tallied 78 points to claim the title, while DePauw University finished […]

“Haskin Ridge,” on the east side of the Husband Hill summit on the Red Planet, has been named for the late earth & planetary sciences professor.

Anne Margaret Baxley, Ph.D., Martin Kennedy, D.M.A, Nancy Reynolds, Ph.D., and Jessica Rosenfeld, Ph.D.

An open-enrollment brochure will be sent to campus boxes during the week of Oct. 17; changes must be received by the benefits office by Nov. 30.

Courtesy PhotoPhotographer Phyllis Galembo will speak about her work Oct. 19 for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

The blistering yet exuberant depiction of modern urban life will kick off the OVATIONS! Series Oct. 21-22.

Photo by Jennifer SilverbergMembers of the WUSTL Greek community helped organize the “Loop in Motion” parade, staff a float and run fund-raising booths.

Women have different sports medicine needs than men.Reporting on issues unique to female runners in the journal Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, Washington University physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists say women’s bodies adapt to athletic challenges differently. They say that when female athletes get injured, health-care professionals need to consider the anatomic, biomechanical, hormonal and functional factors that are unique to women.

Forget purple mountains and fruited plains. The contemporary American landscape is more typically composed of parking lots and shopping malls, factory towns and industrial developments, argues Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles. From Oct. 26-29, Coolidge will host a number of events exploring St. Louis’ urban landscape as part of the yearlong series “Unsettled Ground: Nature, Landscape, and Ecology Now!” co-sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.