Newsroom Stories

Faculty, staff and students who park vehicles on the Danforth Campus must renew their permits for the upcoming 2010-11 academic year. Permits can be renewed online at parking.wustl.edu or at the Parking and Transportation Services office in North Campus. Permits for the 2009-10 academic year expire June 30.

Most students are gone for the summer, but WUSTL Dining Services is keeping notable locations open on the Danforth Campus to serve students, faculty and staff remaining on campus from June 14-August 14.

At the service awards ceremony, the following people were recognized for 10 years of service to the university: Chiquita C. Anderson, Bethann M. Anglin, David L. Archer, Jason R. Becker, Henry Biggs, Jeannine D. Cahill, Ai-Li Cai, Jennifer Chandler, Wade Andrew Charleston, Mary Ann Clifford, Gregory Macleod Coan, Linda K. Coffin, Jonathan L. Cohen, Kim […]

Gloria White award-winner Donna Williams has been a “steadying hand” for the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Williams was recognized with the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award in a May 24 ceremony in Edison Theatre on Staff Day. Throughout Staff Day, WUSTL employees were recognized for their years of service to the university, their athletic prowess, and their luck,

A protein that helps build the brain in infants and children may aid efforts to restore damage from multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found.

When she was a child “in the land Down Under,” Camilla Whittington’s dad decided it would be fun for them to go look for platypuses. These animals, found only in Australia, are technically mammals, yet they are like no other mammals around – sure, like all mammals, they produce milk for their babies, but they also lay eggs and have a bill like birds do, and, most oddly, the males shoot venom from spurs in their hind legs that causes pain even the strongest painkillers can’t alleviate.  

Film and photography are in many ways defined by the tensions between them: narrative vs. static, still vs. moving images. This summer, in conjunction with the exhibition Focus on Photography, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present a pair of feature-length films, Andy Warhol and In the Land of the War Canoes, that highlight connections between the two media.

The bone-strengthening drug zoledronic acid (Zometa) can help fight metastatic breast cancer when given before surgery, suggests research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. When the drug was given along with chemotherapy for three months before breast cancer surgery, it reduced the number of women who had tumor cells in their bone marrow at the time of surgery.

Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will share findings from the recent report by the Committee on America’s Energy Future in a talk June 7 at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center in Kansas City. Wrighton served as vice-chair of the Committee on America’s Energy Future, a group sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. He is a scientist, researcher and respected authority on global energy options. 

Internationally acclaimed silversmith Heikki Seppä, professor emeritus in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art’s College of Art, died Tuesday, May 18, at his home on Bainbridge Island, Wash. He was 83. One of the most innovative and influential silversmiths of the latter 20th century, Seppä helped introduce the technique of reticulation to the United States while also developing and popularizing new methods for shaping sheet metal into three-dimensional shell structures.