Newsroom Stories

Max Wolfson and Amber Lin, second-year medical students, perform at a School of Medicine coffeehouse Nov. 29. Held three times a year and hosted by the school’s Arts Commission, the coffeehouses give students the opportunity to showcase musical and other talents.

A new faculty and staff recruiting guide will help departments in their hiring efforts. Our Guide: The Insider’s Guide to Washington University in St. Louis and Our Surrounding Community is available upon request.

Host families and students are invited to sign up for the Home Plate Program, which matches students with families to share a meal together especially when the students are far from home.

The word from Antarctica is that the polar vortex is setting up early this year and the balloon-borne Super-TIGER cosmic-ray experiment may be launched into the vortex any day now. Once the launch starts, web cams and a tracking map will go live at NASA’a Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility site Blogs and Twitter feeds are already providing a lively running commentary on the buildup to launch.

The No. 10 men’s basketball team captured the 29th annual Lopata Classic with a 67-57 win over No. 7 Illinois Wesleyan University Saturday at the Field House.

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present its annual sing-along of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, in Graham Chapel. Nicole Aldrich, director of choral activities, directs the program.

The annual “Report to the Neighbors” meeting was held Nov. 26 in Whitaker Hall. The event is held to help keep those living in neighborhoods surrounding WUSTL informed on university happenings and also to give neighbors a forum to voice comments and concerns to a panel of university administrators. Right, Clayton neighbor William M. Landau, MD, professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, asks a question during the Q&A session.

Third-year medical student Elaine Khoong has received a prestigious Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship from the Association of American Medical Colleges. ​

Seven WUSTL faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns received WUSTL’s 2012 International Humanities Medal and accompanying $25,000 Humanities Prize Nov. 16. While on campus, Burns delivered an Assembly Series talk, met with students and previewed three of his films.