Newsroom Stories

The No. 2 volleyball team is in La Verne, Calif., for the 2003 NCAA Division III Final Four today and Dec. 6. The Bears, who defeated No. 5 Ohio Northern University in the national quarterfinals, will make their 12th appearance in the semifinals when they take on the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. […]

They also elected Harry J. Seigle of Seigle’s Home and Building Centers as an Ethan A.H. Shepley trustee for a four-year term.

Also opening are complementary exhibitions Painting America in the 19th Century and American Art on Paper From the 1960s to the Present.

The “Applied Statistics Online” course is offered by University College in Arts & Sciences and taught by David Dixon.

The Washington University Chamber Orchestra — under the director of Elizabeth Macdonald, director of strings in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will perform a concert of all-time hits from the Baroque era and the 20th century at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 in Umrath Hall Lounge. The concert will opens with American […]

Photo by Mary ButkusOlin School of Business students and their families celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year at the “Chinese New Year Festival.”

Helie Lee, author of the national best-selling memoirs Still Life With Rice (1996) and In the Absence of Sun (2002), will host a pair of events Feb. 23-24 for The SmartSet Series: Where Great Writers Read, sponsored by The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences. At 8 p.m. Feb. 23, Lee will read […]

Pianist James Prell will join the Washington University Symphony Orchestra for a performance at 3 p.m. Feb. 22 in Graham Chapel. Prell, a junior in Arts & Sciences, will be the featured soloist in Maurice Ravel’s virtuosic work for piano and orchestra, Concerto in G Major. The piece is rife with elements reflecting the French […]

First there was HEAO, then SOFIE, then CRIS and now TIGER. For an astrophysicist whose major research projects over the past 36 years have had these acronyms, it is only fitting that Martin H. Israel, Ph.D., drives a car with license plates that read “COSMC” — as in cosmic rays. Since he arrived at the […]

Photo by Mary ButkusMark S. Wrighton spoke on several issues of importance to all members of the University community at a “Chat With The Chancellor.”