Who Knew WashU?

Question: Barry Commoner, who was a university biologist and leader in the environmental movement, helped conduct the St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey, begun in 1958. How many teeth were collected in that effort?

Question: Why is the student residential area known as the “South 40”?

Question: In what year did daily chapel services on campus end, replaced by a weekly lecture by lay people? 

Question: Which iconic jazz artist received an honorary degree from the university?

Question: How many Washington University student-athletes have become NCAA individual champions?

Question: Many WashU students and alumni have started their own businesses. What did young alum Andrew Glantz help create while still a student here? 

Question: In what year did Walter Moran Farmer become the first African-American to earn a degree from Washington University?

Question: In 2010, Monticello scholars discovered that Washington University owned the ____ – largest collection of Thomas Jefferson’s books.

Question: Approximately what percentage of WashU undergraduate students are from more than 500 miles away from campus?

Question: Who was the first alumnus to become chancellor?