In celebration of The Black Rep’s 31st season, Washington University’s Diversity Initiative is giving away 31 season PassPorts to University faculty and staff. Each season PassPort consists of five ticket vouchers redeemable at any time during the 2008 season. The drawing, which for the second consecutive year is sponsored by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and […]
David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesThe combination of beer, wastewater, microbes, fuel cells, high-school students and teachers sounds like a witches’ brew for an old-fashioned, illicit 1960s beach party. Instead, these are the components of a new high-school science curriculum being developed by researchers at Washington University and two St. Louis area high-school teachers.
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at WUSTL has announced the recipients of its first annual Faculty Creative Activity Research Grants. Five faculty members from the College of Art and the College of Architecture will each receive $5,000 to support a variety of projects, from publications and video documentary to large-scale public sculpture.
Tamara L. King, J.D., director of Judicial Programs, has been named president-elect of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs, an international organization that helps to promote, encourage and support student development professionals who have responsibility for student judicial affairs.
Montreal’s acclaimed DynamO Théâtre will launch Edison Theatre’s popular ovations! for young people series with “me me me,” a whirling mix of gymnastics, theater, juggling and mime that tackles perhaps the toughest of all political arenas: grade school. The special one-day-only performance begins at 11 a.m. on Jan. 12 in Edison Theatre.
Volleyball head coach Rich Luenemann was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Coach of the Year Nov. 26. The Bears finished the season with a 33-5 overall record and won the ninth Div. III volleyball title in school history. It is the second time in nine seasons at WUSTL that Luenemann has earned the […]
Construction Update is published periodically and provides information about the progress of major building and renovation projects. Information is provided to the Record by Facilities Management. Harry and Susan Seigle Hall The stone masonry on the south face of the building is seven-eighths complete. The stone masonry has begun on the northern half of the […]
Faculty achievement award winners Carl M. Bender, Ph.D., the Wilfred R. and Ann Lee Konneker Distinguished Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences, and Helen M. Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and physiology and of internal medicine at the School of Medicine, share a light moment during the award ceremony Dec. 1 at the […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a new rule called the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard. The rule impacts all institutions that store or use chemicals, including universities. The regulation requires all facilities to immediately inventory specific “Chemicals of Interest” that could attract terrorists. The DHS has given a very short time period in […]