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SOFTBALL: Swary, Kressel recognized First baseman Liz Swary earned Academic All-American honors for the second consecutive year. She was named to the first-team of the 2004 College Sports Information Directors of America’s Academic All-America College Division Softball Team. Also, third baseman Jamie Kressel was named to the 2004 Jewish Sports Review College Softball All-America Team. […]

With a nod to the Oct. 8 presidential debate to be held at WUSTL, several Assembly Series speakers will have a politically related or election-oriented focus.

Franklin, 49; Davis, 47; Koch, 67

“This isn’t the answer to everything in terms of finding these links, but it’s an important breakthrough,” says senior investigator Howard McLeod.

The aim is to help the University community fully understand all sides of some of the key political issues.

“The overall feeling from everyone is, ‘Wow, what a great building!'” says department Chair Raymond Arvidson. “We’re very grateful for it.”

The following incidents were reported to University Police July 20-Aug. 10. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. July 28 12:04 p.m. — A […]

Washington University in St. Louis, host of a presidential debate scheduled for Oct. 8, 2004, offers the media a rich source of expertise on presidential politics and related campaign issues. The University has a strong connection to modern presidential politics, having been selected to host presidential debates in each election since 1992. Presidential debates were […]

ManaryMark Manary, a WUSM pediatrician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, is saving the lives of children in Malawi with peanut butter. His revolutionary new method for treating starving children in malnourished regions could become a worldwide standard of care. Tina Hesman tells the story of Manary’s work in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.

Detail from Max Beckmann’s “Four Men Around a Table” (1943).H.W. Janson (1913-1982) is among the 20th century’s most influential art historians. Since 1962, his textbook History of Art, now in its sixth edition, has been used in countless college surveys and sold four million copies in 14 languages. Yet Janson, who emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in the mid-1930s to protest Nazi cultural policies, remains little known in his former country. That’s about to change, thanks to Exile and Modernism: H.W. Janson and the Collection of Washington University in St. Louis, a touring exhibition organized by the university’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.