Newsroom Stories

The lecture, “Learning for Life,” has been arranged for visiting high-school students and their parents but is open to the University community.

Edited by D.B. Dowd, professor of visual communications in the School of Art, and 2002 alumnus M. Todd Hignite, The Rubber Frame: Essays in Culture and Comics investigates a series of key themes and moments in the history of comics. Angela Miller, Ph.D., associate professor of art history & archaeology in Arts & Sciences, observes […]

Photo by Kevin LowderChancellor Wrighton visits with Faculty Achievement Award winners Philip D. Stahl and Jonathan S. Turner at an Assembly Series event.

What’s in a flame? That basic question has driven Richard L. Axelbaum, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical engineering, for more than 20 years in his career as teacher and researcher in combustion, materials and environmental sciences. Thanks to his pursuit of understanding the phenomena of fire and light, Axelbaum and colleagues have discovered a wealth […]

As more and more visitors and members of the media come to the University, fewer and fewer parking spaces will be available.

The Center for Social Development (CSD) in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host “Crossing Network Lines: Facilitating Partnerships and Building Coalitions Across Aging and Disability Service Networks to Improve Service Delivery,” a scientific meeting of national and local scholars, practice professionals, public officials and policy makers Oct. 7 at the Chase […]

Photo by Bob Boston In the Midst: 20 Degrees East by Joe Chelsa, is one of 10 pieces featured in the St. Louis Spatialsynergy: Transforming Space exhibit.

Men’s soccer wins two by shutout The men’s soccer team went 2-0 last week, picking up a pair of shutouts. The Bears blanked Westminster College, 2-0, Sept. 24 in Fulton, Mo. Junior Rob Weeks led the way with his third game-winning goal of the season. Freshman Brian San Francisco added an insurance goal, his first […]

Bears’ Bikes and Campus Easy Sales are on the ground level of Gregg House; they are part of the Student Entrepreneurial Program.

It was 1957. Ford Motor Co. unveiled the Edsel; American Bandstand, with 27-year-old host Dick Clark, made its network television debut; Jerry Lee Lewis recorded “Great Balls of Fire” and the USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite. And Josephine Simpson first reported for work at Washington University. Simpson was one of 45 retirees — […]