Newsroom Stories

Photo by Bill StoverChancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Executive Vice Chancellor David T. Blasingame spoke at a celebration July 1 in Holmes Lounge.The Campaign for Washington University ended June 30 with $1.55 billion in gifts and commitments, a WUSTL record.

Photo by Kevin LowderTours were recently given of the University’s 11 on-campus fraternity houses were closed this summer for long-needed renovations.

More than 1,000 University students, mainly newly arrived freshmen, will volunteer their time Sept. 4 to work at area public schools.

“Beyond his leadership of the campaign, (he) is an invaluable future contributor to the advance of the University,” Chancellor Wrighton says.

The annual event will feature open houses, entrance exams, meetings with deans and several special programs.

It’s “another example of our faculty and staff’s unwavering commitment to protect our research participants,” Vice Chancellor Cicero says.

A grant program will be administered and coordinated by the newly established Center for Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

PeckThe National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine has named William A. Peck, M.D., a member of a national committee that will address ways to redesign health insurance benefits, payment and performance improvement programs.

Millions of people with severe tinnitus currently have little hope for quick relief from the unrelenting ringing or buzzing noises the disorder produces. But WUSM scientists suspect a drug already approved for seizure disorders and chronic nerve pain also can help silence the noises that plague tinnitus patients.

Manfred Pernice, “Untitled (Bicycle Rack),” 2002.The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis is recipient of a $125,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. The award will support Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the inaugural loan exhibition in the museum’s new facilities, scheduled to open in Fall 2006.