Environmental Initiative Colloquium to focus on education, research initiatives

The University’s yearlong Sesquicentennial Environmental Initiative Colloquia will continue at 2 p.m. April 21 with a program on “Educational Practices and the Environment.” The event will be held in the auditorium of Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering and is free and open to the public. A panel will feature administrators from Harvard, Stanford […]

Completing the loop

The saying “what goes around comes around” has a particular resonance for Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science. Twenty-three years ago, as a master’s degree candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, Biswas did a thesis on heat transfer, with an eye toward solar power, with one […]

Picturing our Past

The Department of Anatomy (now the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology) has been around for nearly 100 years. The department covers such aspects of the human body as anatomical principles and human growth and development (pictured in a 1940s anatomy lab), as well as cell and tissue biology and the structure, function and development of […]

Topics in the News – April 2004

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Runway that launched juniors’ fashions still going strong

WUSTL ArchivesFashion Design class of 1960Fashion today is about the new, the hip, the cool and — above all else — the young. But such was not always the case. In 1929, a student fashion show at Washington University in St. Louis changed the apparel industry forever by launching the juniors’ dress. On May 2, the School of Art’s Fashion Design Show will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a Paris-style runway extravaganza at Saint Louis Galleria.