New technique makes corn ethanol process more efficient

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are proposing to borrow a process used in breweries and wastewater treatment facilities to make corn ethanol more energy efficient. They are exploring the use of oxygen-less vats of microorganisms that naturally feed on organic waste produced from the ethanol fermentation process.

A monumental move

Photo by David KilperStudents and staff from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum lift Thaddeus Strode’s massive canvas “The Doppelganger’s Boneyard” (2007) into place in the Saligman Family Atrium last month.

Popular brown-bag lunch series begins 13th year

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held on campus biweekly through Dec. 1. Now in its 13th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]

Welcome to campus

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Students were able to enjoy a variety of activities during Fall Orientation Aug. 21-26, such as dancing at the South 40 and participating in “SUp all night” in the Danforth University Center.

Volleyball starts with four straight victories

The No. 2 volleyball team began its 2008 season with four victories at the 2008 Washington University Invitational in the WU Field House. Senior setter Audra Janak and senior rightside attacker Nikki Morrison were named to the all-tournament team. Janak finished the weekend with 89 assists, 28 digs and 12 kills, while Morrison hit a […]

A good book, a great setting

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Barbara Baumgartner, Ph.D. (top, center), associate director and senior lecturer in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, chats with freshmen outside the Danforth University Center Aug. 25. The group was discussing Elizabeth Kolbert’s book “Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change,” the book chosen for this year’s Freshman Reading Program.

Zacks receives $1.5 million grant to understand event memory

Jeffrey M. Zacks, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $1,548,619 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Encoding and Remembering Events Across the Life Span.”

Welcome to campus

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Students were able to enjoy a variety of activities during Fall Orientation Aug. 21-26, such as dancing at the South 40 and participating in “SUp all night” in the Danforth University Center.

Popular brown-bag lunch series begins 13th year

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held on campus biweekly through Dec. 1. Now in its 13th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]