China’s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change

The Chinese government’s recent decision to scrap controversial plans for a huge dam at Tiger Leaping Gorge on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River represents a milestone for growing grassroots political movements in China, said Andrew C. Mertha, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, in his upcoming book on the politics behind China’s epic dam-building campaign.

WUSTL receives national recognition with Community Service Honor Roll

Washington University has been named to the 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The Honor Roll, launched in 2006, recognizes colleges and universities nationwide that support innovative and effective community service and service-learning programs.

Olin Young Leaders launched with panel discussion

The Olin Young Leaders Association launched onto the WUSTL scene this week with an inaugural event designed to demonstrate the richness the organization brings to the Olin Business School’s MBA program.

Helping to save a life

Photo by Robert BostonChris Stander, who manages the lab of Andrey Shaw, M.D., in the Department of Pathology and Immunology, gives blood in the Clinical Sciences Research Building link at the recent blood drive.

‘Lizzie Borden’ presents fact, legend and Freud

Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother 40 whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41 So goes the well-known nursery rhyme, though the victims were actually Borden’s father and stepmother. And more than 100 years after that infamous double murder, Borden — who was acquitted of the […]