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Student green ambassadors sought

WashU Green Ambassadors (WUGAs) play a critical role in teaching first-year students about sustainability through activities during orientation week and beyond. Students interested in joining the next WUGA cohort should apply by May 31. 
Campus & Community

MEDIA ADVISORY: Washington University Commencement is 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 17

Washington University’s 158th Commencement is 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 17, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university will award degrees to more than 3,160 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, and Michael R. Bloomberg, 108th mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, will give the Commencement address. This will be the last Commencement ceremony that Mark S. Wrighton will preside over as chancellor; his tenure concludes May 31 after 24 years at the helm.
Campus & Community

Meet the graduates

Graduate: Terri Williams Home: Ferguson Degree: Master’s in American culture studies from University College in Arts & Sciences Terri Williams, 32, is an community activist, business owner and mother who returned to college to improve her skills a communicator and filmmaker. Terri and her husband, Chris, own Total Image Barber and Beauty in University City, […]
Biology

A tale of two skeeters

mosquito
A native mosquito in Missouri has fewer parasites when it shares its waters with an interloper, according to new research from biologists at Tyson Research Center, the environmental field station for Washington University in St. Louis.
Campus & Community

Senior class president to urge classmates to be change-makers

Senior Class President Joey Vettiankal abandoned his plans to be a doctor after observing the 2016 presidential debate at Washington University. “That’s when I realized that science had always been my interest, but politics and public policy are my passion,” said Vettiankal, who will pursue a career in law after graduation.
Campus & Community

Medical student Keane to give graduate student address

Medical student Alexandra Keane
Alexandra Keane has spent her undergraduate and medical student career at Washington University. She received numerous academic honors, played point guard on the women’s basketball team and, to cap her student years, will give the graduate student address at Commencement on Friday, May 17.

Schaal receives National Science Board Public Service Award

Dean Barbara Schaal
Barbara A. Schaal, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, received the 2019 National Science Board Public Service Award.

Flags lowered in honor of law enforcement

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff from sunrise until sunset today in honor of Peace Officers Memorial Day, which recognizes the work of law enforcement officers.