Newsroom Stories

Srinivasan Sridharan, PhD, professor of civil engineering since 1980, died April 24, 2011. He was 69.

No room in the truck for the futon, extra boxes of macaroni or nearly new T-shirts during move-out? Instead of throwing those items away, donate them to Share Our Stuff (SOS). WUSTL’s SOS program seeks to reduce waste and share goods typically thrown away during on-campus and off-campus move-out with those in need in the St. Louis region. SOS hosts drop-off points at Danforth Campus residential areas and off-campus.

Both the Danforth and Medical campuses at WUSTL held many events to celebrate the week of Earth Day April 18-23. At the Medical Campus, Courtney Pike and Liz Wright talk to Changguo Tang, PhD, about gardening and water conservation in front of the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University School of Medicine April 20.

Gary S. Wihl, PhD, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, recognized the challenges faculty were having in accepting some of the more prestigious and highly competitive fellowships and last year instituted a Competitive Fellowship Leave program, which allows humanities and social sciences faculty members to minimize the unintended negative consequences of accepting competitive fellowships.

Rodolphe L. (Rudy) Motard, DSc, professor of chemical engineering and chairman of the chemical engineering department from 1978-1991, died April 23, 2011, in South St. Louis County surrounded by his family. He was 85.

Between 40-50 Washington University in St. Louis students each year make up the January Program, a unique experience in the College of Arts & Sciences and the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. It allows talented students like Ogi Kwon opportunities to transition to WUSTL and arrive on campus five months after their peers without skipping a beat.

Evidence supporting the link between savings and college success is growing. Three studies out of the Center for Social Development (CSD) at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis offer a connection between assets and college enrollment and completion. “This research underscores the importance of policies and programs that help Americans of all income levels to save for college,” says Margaret Clancy, policy director and College Savings Initiative director at CSD. In a study forthcoming in the Journal of Children and Poverty, CSD researchers found that among youth who expected to graduate from a four-year college, those with a savings account in their name were approximately six times more likely to attend college than those with no account.  

Marshall Brown is an assistant professor at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he teaches architecture and urban design. He also was appointed the first Saarinen Architecture Fellow at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is teaching with Architect in Residence William Massie during the 2010-11 school year. Brown earned a […]

Richard Brown is president of Handshouse Studio, Inc., an innovative non-profit organization dedicated to hands-on exploration of history, science, mathematics, literature, arts, culture, and technology. The group—which Brown co-founded in 1999 with his wife, Laura—works with students, educational institutions, and major media organizations to create exactingly researched and constructed replicas of historic structures. For example, […]

Rodney Henmi has devoted his architectural career to improving design quality in two often underserved building types: affordable housing and industrial architecture. Born and raised in St. Louis, Henmi earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota in 1975, then spent several years with Roger Johnson and Associates in Minneapolis and Onuma […]