Life insurance open enrollment coming; investment seminars set
Employees enrolled in the optional term life insurance plan will receive a special bonus — a will-preparation service at no additional cost.
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The long and winding road
Fatty acids play important roles in health and disease. Scientists used to think cells just kind of passively absorbed those fatty acids, but in the early 1990s, Nada A. Abumrad, Ph.D., helped change all that. She proposed that cells must use receptor proteins to import fatty acids. At the time, it was a very controversial […]
Sam Fox School honors distinguished architecture alumni
The awards recognize those who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision to the practice of architecture & the school.
Kennedy to present original chamber works
The assistant professor of theory & composition earned a doctorate from the Juilliard School in 2005 and joined WUSTL’s music department last fall.
Jon Cook to speak on craft of poetry
Jon Cook, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will speak on the craft of poetry at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 15. Cook is the author of Romanticism and Ideology (1981), William Hazlitt: Selected Writings (1991), Poetry in Theory (2004) and the forthcoming Hazlitt in Love.
Manchanda appointed Kemper Art Museum curator
She succeeds Sabine Eckmann; the appointment comes at a critical time for the museum, which will open a new 65,000-square-foot facility this fall.
Allen named assistant vice chancellor, senior counsel
She earned bachelor’s, master’s and a law degrees here, and she also was an adjunct professor in the School of Law.
Fields to deliver Assembly Series talk on rhetoric
He’s been at WUSTL since 1968; national media often ask him to provide expert commentary regarding the use of rhetoric as a political or social tool.
Biological sciences jumps into top 10 in U.S. News rankings
The School of Law entered the top 20 for the first time, moving into a tie for 19th this year; the M.B.A. program in the Olin School climbed to a tie for 26th.
Academic Year Highlights: A Letter From Chancellor Wrighton
The chancellor reviews some of the academic year’s achievements and milestones, and shares some plans to be initiated shortly after Commencement.