The African Students Association held their annual Africa Week this week, which will be capped by the Performing Arts Department’s performance of the play “The Lion and the Jewel” this weekend and next weekend.
The start of Africa Week corresponds to Washington University’s celebrations weekend, which was held last weekend.
Five University students competed this week in an International Environmental Design competition in New Mexico, attempting to execute a sustainable water desalination process.
Senior Alexandrea Palensky and graduate students Kate Nelson, Matt Agler, and Alyssa Smith were at New Mexico State University this week to present their project to contest judges.
Harvard University’s graduate school application system was hacked in late February, revealing social security numbers and other personal data. The fallout has raised questions about Washington University’s own security system.
After the incident, Harvard offered identity theft recovery services at their expense for the approximately 6,600 people affected.
At freshman convocation, everyone grabs under their seat expectantly, but only a few raise their arms victoriously, holding an envelope. They get the rare chance to go bowling at the Chancellor’s house. The rest will never see that special lane, unless they win the Relay For Life Spirit Team Award.
Nobody told the familiar bells of Graham Chapel the new rules of Daylight Savings Time, subtlety hinting at a few secrets the Chapel still holds.
The Chapel’s seemingly ancient clock and chimes are actually a modern computer-controlled atomic clock, called a Carrilon.
Students in the School of Art compete in a tug of war against members of the School of Art faculty and staff Friday afternoon outside of Bixby Hall. The event was not only a physical competition, but was also a performative artwork orchestrated by second year MFA candidate Stephen Quick.
Washington University alumnus and St. Louis native Robert Behnken is out of this world, literally. Behnken has completed a mission to install new modules on the International Space Station (ISS).
The mission has installed half of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s module Kibo, the first Japanese component on the ISS.
Do you remember your freshman resident advisor (RA)? Perhaps more tellingly, do you remember your sophomore or junior RA? The Residential Advising program is one of the most vital aspects of the undergraduate experience here at Washington University, and there’s more to it than meets the eye.
The Washington University School of Law is partnering with four European law schools to create a pioneering integrated transnational law program. This fall will see the first students accepted into the special four-year program.
“This is unique among American law schools, unique in the world,” said Michael Peil, assistant dean for international programs and executive director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the School of Law.
St Louis has a pretty active bar and club scene, with places you can go to drink, dance to any type of music and maybe meet someone new. In that respect, gay bars are no different. St Louis is home to 15-20 (depending on who you ask) gay, lesbian or queer-friendly bars and clubs.
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