Newsroom Stories

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences will host the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 28-30. Titled “The Past in the Present: Revolutions, Reactions, Transgressions,” the conference, co-hosted with the Office of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, will take place at the Crowne Plaza St. Louis-Clayton Hotel and in Eads and Wilson Halls on the Danforth Campus.

Connie Diekman, RD, director of University Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis and past president of the American Dietitic Association, has several tips for enjoying Halloween candy, but doing it in a healthier way.

National Geographic News Oldest modern human outside of Africa found 10/25/2010 A human jawbone fossil discovered in southern China is upsetting conventional notions of when our ancestors migrated out of Africa. The mandible sports a distinctly modern feature: a prominent chin. But the bone is undeniably 60,000 years older than the next oldest Homo sapiens’ […]

Washington University employees may attend one of many sessions that will go over changes to the benefit plans for 2011.

Richard Heinzl, M.D., founder of Doctors without Borders, Canada, will present a talk, “Lessons from Abroad: The Opportunities of a Borderless World” at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8 at Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus.The event is co-sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the School of Medicine

NASA astronaut Robert L. Behnken, PhD, presents to Chancelllor Mark S. Wrighton a photograph of James S. McDonnell, a.k.a. “Mr. Mac,” that had traveled into space and been signed by his fellow astronauts. Behnken presented the photograph at the end of the third annual Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture Oct. 21, during which he described his experiences as a space shuttle crewmember and life on the International Space Station.

Scientists from across Missouri will gather Wednesday, Oct. 27, at Washington University in St. Louis to learn — in one jam-packed day — about the latest advances in nanotechnology and opportunities for commercializing them. Co-organized by seven Missouri universities, the 2nd Annual Missouri NanoFrontiers Symposium is co-hosted by Washington University and the University of Missouri-St. Louis and begins at 7:45 a.m. in Whitaker Hall on the Danforth Campus. The meeting is free and open to the public. 

Chronicle of Higher Education WUSTL among top five producers of Fulbright scholars 10/24/2010 The U.S. State Department wants its premier fellowship program to help develop creative responses to problems as serious as climate change and pandemics. The Fulbright Program, which had a budget of $253.8 million in the 2010 fiscal year, sent 1,564 students and […]

Sports updates for the week of Oct. 25, 2010.

Hourly rates for the WUSTL WeCar program will be reduced beginning Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. The WeCar program allows WUSTL students, faculty, staff and employees of qualified service providers to rent vehicles on campus at an hourly rate. The new rates, as of Nov. 1, are $5 per hour for a sedan and $8 per hour for an SUV.