Fiberglass cakes celebrate WUSTL’s role in St. Louis history
As part of St. Louis’ 250th birthday celebration, 250 cakes have been installed at local landmarks — including WUSTL’s own Francis Field and the School of Medicine.
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Additional workplace safety classes offered
As part of WUSTL’s ongoing commitment to providing a safe and secure environment for university employees, students and visitors, the university is offering additional workplace safety training sessions.
Ritters receive 2014 Harris St. Louis Community Service Award
Recipients of this year’s Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award are Peggy and Jerry Ritter. The award is given annually to a husband-and-wife team for exemplary dedication in advancing the educational, cultural and social service institutions in the metropolitan area.
It butter be good!
Freshman Annie Brinza works during a butter-sculpting contest in Lopata Hall, part of WUSTL’s
annual En Week. Sponsored by the
School of Engineering & Applied Science, the goal of En Week, held Feb. 16-21, is to increase the school’s visibility on campus, celebrate how
engineers make a difference and increase public dialogue
about the need for engineers.
Students from WUSTL in DC Programs get rare chance to visit with Dalai Lama
Students from the WUSTL in DC Programs had the chance to visit with the Dalai Lama during a private forum at the American Enterprise Institute on moral free enterprise and ethics. Afterward, the Dalai Lama greeted students and posed for pictures.
Panel recommends listing depression as a risk for heart disease
A great talent and a lovely man
With his round glasses, amused diction and stiff, patrician carriage, Harold Ramis (AB ’66), was the coolest nerd in the room, a deadpan bomb-thrower, an ironist for the ages. You were never sure if he was joking. That was half the joke.
Olin Cup finalists to participate in high performance entrepreneurship program
Two WUSTL students, both past winners of the
university’s Olin Cup, have been selected as Pipeline Fellows and will participate in a nationally
recognized year long program designed to accelerate the growth of high
performance entrepreneurs.
FameLab, National Geographic’s science communication competition, stops at WUSTL Saturday
Kenny Broad, FameLab host and National Geographic’s 2011 Explorer of the Year, says FameLab delivers an engaging mix of cutting-edge science and entertainment.
CANCELED: Nobel laureate neuroscientist Eric Kandel explores art and the mind/brain for the Assembly Series
What happens in your brain when you look at this Klimt painting? A lot more than you might ever guess, according to Nobel laureate neuroscientist Eric Kandel, who will explore the connection between art and the mind/brain in his talk, “The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present” for the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Graham Chapel.