Newsroom Stories

Ann Bingham has been named director of the WUSTL Family Learning Center, an on-campus 19,900-square-foot child-care center scheduled to open Sept. 7. The Family Learning Center is being built on the North Campus and will offer care for 156 children of faculty, staff and students from the ages of 6 weeks to 6 years.

At last count there were three physics PhDs in Congress, five science PhDs total, and 228 senators and congressmen with law degrees. WUSTL postdoctoral fellow in physics Chris Spitzer, who has just been named a Congressional Science Fellow for 2010-2011, is off to Washington to learn and observe but also to do what he can to make sure national policy in areas such as energy and the environment reflects current scientific understanding.

Steven Smith, director of the Weidenbaum Center and political science professor is calling for filibuster reform in the U.S. Senate.  And he’s taking his message to Capitol hill.Smith is participating in a conference sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center and the Brookings Institution on the “State of the Senate” May 17 in Washington D.C. On May 19, Smith will testify before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to argue his case for reform of the rules that are obstructing and restricting the legislative role of the Senate.

Commencement week begins Monday, May 17, with a variety of celebrations and ceremonies designed to warmly send Washington University in St. Louis graduates out into the world.

Being overweight can touch so many aspects of a child’s life. His or her schoolwork can suffer and social lives can be limited. Overweight or obese children have more difficulty sleeping, playing and even breathing.

Of note Jonathan M. Chase, PhD, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and director of the Tyson Research Center, and Tiffany M. Knight, PhD, associate professor of biology, have received a five-year, $705,546 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Mechanisms of Species-Area Relationships in Ozark Glades.” … Paul Goodfellow, PhD, […]

More than 150 St. Louis-area high school students gathered May 7 in the Field House to launch their custom-built aluminum gliders as part of the Boeing Engineering Challenge Final Flight. The Engineering Challenge — the culmination of a series of technical meetings, design reviews and prototype development activities — is a partnership between Boeing and WUSTL intended to get high school students excited about the engineering field.

WUSTL faculty, staff, postdoctoral appointees and clinical fellows soon will be able to enroll in and make changes to their benefits themselves through the university’s new online benefits program, eBenefits.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are studying people age 60 and older to determine whether augmenting medication for depression with a second drug might help older patients break free of clinical depression. Both study drugs are FDA-approved therapies for depression in younger adults, but the benefits need to be examined in older adults. 

James E. McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, was presented with the Search Award at the university’s 43rd annual William Greenleaf Eliot gala May 11. McLeod was honored for 35 years of invaluable contributions, inspiration, devotion and guidance to the Washington University community.