Newsroom Stories

The School of Law is hosting a screening and discussion of the award-winning documentary “Off and Running” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. The event is free and open to the public. In “Off and Running,” filmmaker Nicole Opper chronicles the coming-of-age story of Avery, the adopted daughter of white Jewish lesbian parents and sister to two adopted brothers — one mixed-race and one Korean.

Washington University will simulate an emergency situation on its campuses the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 12, to help ensure the university is prepared should an actual emergency occur. Staff from participating departments throughout the Danforth, Medical, West and North campuses will participate in the drill.

G. Robert Blackburn, the first director of community and government relations at Washington University, died Sept. 20, 2010. He was 88. Blackburn was the university’s director of community and government relations from 1972-1992.

E Science News New report examines university management of intellectual property 10/04/2010 A report released today by the National Research Council says the current system that gives universities control over intellectual property associated with the results of federally funded research at their institutions needs improvement. WUSTL Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, chaired the committee that wrote […]

An entrepreneur who has helped thousands of people in poverty-stricken countries throughout Africa says she couldn’t have done it without the help of students and professors at Washington University. The Blessing Basket Project bestows its annual World Changer award on WUSTL. Video history and thank you from artisans in Africa included.

Brazilian conceptual artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates playful, ephemeral and often participatory artworks that blur distinctions between author and viewer, object and memory, permanence and temporality. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other, the artist’s first major midcareer survey. Covering a decade of work, the exhibition reveals a wide-ranging interdisciplinary practice that merges painting, photography, film, sculpture, installation and collaborative action.

The Washington University in St. Louis Department of Athletics launched its new website Friday, Oct. 1. The website address will remain the same as the old site, bearsports.wustl.edu.

WHAT: Today, the Washington University military care package group will surpass 5 tons of total donated goods mailed to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the group formed in March 2004. Boxes containing the fifth ton will be packed at WUSTL today by group members and members of local ROTC programs. WHO: The WUSTL military […]

Of note Joseph Batchelor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Drew Etheridge, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Andrew Kau, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology & Immunology; Michael Mahowald, MD, PhD, of the Department of Genetics; and Eric Tomko, PhD, of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; have been named […]

At its fall meeting Oct. 1, the Board of Trustees heard presentations by the dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science and two engineering professors about the new Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Hall, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.