Newsroom Stories

Washington, the magazine for Washington University in St. Louis, is changing. An online version of the magazine will be published six times a year (October, December, February, April, June and August). This will allow the magazine to communicate with its audiences more frequently as well as lessen the magazine’s environmental impact.

Tyson Research Center’s Living Learning Center has achieved full certification under the Living Building Challenge run by the International Living Building Institute. The challenge, launched in November 2006, is widely recognized as the world’s most rigorous green building performance standard.

International Herald Tribune Hungarian start-ups compete against giants 10/11/2010 Michael Simon is very much a Midwestern American, with degrees from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Yet he has carved out a most unusual niche in the software industry as the purveyor of blockbuster Hungarian start-ups, including […]

Dreadful zoonoses — animal diseases that now infect people  — have jumped species in distant parts of the world, such as Asia or Africa. But Missouri has its own zoonoses, as well: tick-borne diseases whose spread is encouraged by pest species such as white-tailed deer and invasive plants such as bush honeysuckle. In Missouri, as in Africa or Asia, the loss of a biodiversity takes a toll in human health.

Jill Edwards, project manager for university accreditation programs, and members of the Gateway Battalion Army ROTC pack boxes of donated home-baked goods, snacks, batteries, toiletries and more to send in care packages to U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan Oct. 1. The WUSTL military care package group surpassed five tons of goods donated by the WUSTL community and mailed overseas to soldiers since the group formed in March 2004.

Ralph G. Dacey Jr., MD, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors in health and medicine that medical scientists in the United States can receive.

Salvatore Scibona, whose debut novel The End was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, for Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences.  

WUSTL alumnus Adam Ross returns to campus on Oct 19. at 7 p.m. to read and discuss his new novel, Mr. Peanut, a dark look at the complexities of marriage.

The Australian A ‘Mike’ found in buffalo? 10/10/2010 A family in upstate New York may have had an unfinished Michelangelo painting hanging on their living room wall for years. Michelangelo expert William Wallace, a professor of architecture and art history at Washington University in St. Louis, said he saw the painting before it had been […]

Sports updates for the week of Oct. 11, 2010.