Newsroom Stories

Six blood drives will be held on the Hilltop Campus in 2004-05 to help increase supplies for the American Red Cross and Community Blood Center of St. Louis. The drives will be held Sept. 13-16, Oct. 11-14, Oct. 25-28, Jan. 24-27, Feb. 14-17 and March 21-25. On Sept. 13-14, the drive will be from 11:30 […]

Photo by Claudia BurrisFirst-year medical students enjoy the annual dean’s welcoming party, held Aug. 19 at the Saint Louis Zoo.

The target is $525,000; “We have a responsibility to carry our share of the support for the United Way,” Chancellor Wrighton says.

St. Louis guitarist Steve Schenkel will perform for Washington University Jazz at Holmes series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are seeking women who have had two or more unexplained first trimester miscarriages to evaluate an experimental treatment to help women carry babies to term.

Original cover art, “Love and Rockets” #15There is no shortcut from popular art to cultural respectability, but few have wandered longer than comic book, which has only recently begun to receive its critical and scholarly due. In October, the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics, a book and a pair of complementary exhibitions that together trace the evolution of comics from early precursors in 18th and 19th century England and Switzerland to turn-of-the-last-century newspapers, the raucous undergrounds of the 1960s and ’70s and the literary alternative comics of today.

The Tango Group at Washington University will begin its fall season of dances and workshops Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 17, 18 and 19.

Arianna Huffington combines humor with intelligence to expose what she sees as fanatics, fools, and pigs at the trough. When she speaks at Washington University on Sept. 15 for the Assembly Series, she will be “Handicapping the presidential race.”

Most students who go abroad to study have many interesting tales to tell when they get home. But few, if any, also come back with fantastic stories of smuggling and spying. Fewer still parlay those stories into a Cold War thriller.

Backpacks are intended for convenience, but they can also be a source of pain for children who lug them around. Thousands of kids report injuries due to backpacks each year. Overloaded packs and improper usage are often the culprits in these injuries. Matthew Dobbs, a WUSM pediatrician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, outlines the risks of wearing a backpack and preventative measures that can be taken in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.