Newsroom Stories

Police Chief Strom: “There was really nothing that happened that we had not anticipated or felt we didn’t have a plan for.”

Numerous events are planned around campus for Parents Weekend and Homecoming Oct. 15-17. For Parents Weekend, registration and check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. today at the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. Other events include the Homecoming football game, Health Fair 2004, a walking tour of Forest Park, and Performing Arts Department performances, along with an array […]

A host of workers installed 80 high-speed computer lines and 20 video feeds, among countless other changes.

It takes the efforts of the entire University community working together to make an event like a presidential debate a success.

Debate week was an exciting time; check out the sights from around the University. Debate photo Gallery One Debate photo Gallery Two

Thomas Kilroy, one of Ireland’s most distinguished playwrights, and author Adrian Frazier will present A Weekend of Irish Drama at Washington University Oct. 22 and 23. At 4 p.m. Friday, Oct 22, Kilroy and Frazier will speak on contemporary Irish drama. At 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, both writers will be present for a dramatic reading of Kilroy’s most recently produced play, The Shape of Metal.

This year marks the 50th and 100th anniversaries, respectively, of the deaths of Charles Ives and Antonín Dvořák. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, more than 20 St. Louis musicians — drawn largely from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will present A Chamber Music Concert Celebrating Anniversaries of Antonín Dvořák and Charles Ives. The concert will feature songs and rarely performed works by Ives and Dvorák’s beloved “Serenade for Winds in D minor.”

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are seeking inner-city children and adolescents for a national asthma study. General asthma rates have been steadily rising, but the most dramatic increases have occurred among urban youth.

About 65 percent of people with diabetes die of heart- and circulation-related complications, yet standard therapies are not always effective in this population. The school just received a new type of grant through the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research initiative to plan a multidisciplinary center dedicated to this complex medical challenge.

The following is a sampling of news stories about the debate at Washington University.