Washington University is using online course evaluations as a new tool to monitor academic integrity on campus. Course evaluations now include two questions on academic integrity instead of asking students to report on their expected grade for the course.

In her free time, Dr. Sue Stepleton enjoys travel, opera and long walks in the park—but her real passion, is affecting public policy change to make headway on today’s most salient social issues. Stepleton joined Washington University in September of this year as director of the George Warren Brown School of Social’s new Policy Forum.

A new “WUSTL Dining” app will provide students on the go with a way to check menu and nutritional information for Washington University dining facilities from their iPhones. The app features “Menus” and “Nutrition” functions that pull real-time data from FoodPro, the service Dining Services uses for its online information.

This weekend, 35 students from Washington University joined an estimated 12,000 people to form three rings around the White House on Sunday afternoon. The students went to Washington, D.C., to protest the construction of a 1,700-mile-long crude oil pipeline called Keystone XL, which would run from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

A recent surge in turnout for sorority recruitment has led to the decision of Greek life officials to add a new sorority to Washington University’s Greek community in spring 2013.

Sukkot may be a holiday about Exodus, but this year, people are flooding the Washington University campus to take part in Sukkah City St. Louis. Architects, designers and students from around the country traveled to St. Louis this week to construct their winning designs in the Sukkah City St. Louis concept and design competition.

Although the Washington University Investor Responsibility Advisory Committee (WUIRAC) was endowed with a formal charter in March, its two faculty positions and one of two administrator positions have yet to be filled. The group is able to cast proxy votes on resolutions for the University’s investments.

When Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth asked community members at a memorial for the late Dean James Earl McLeod to stand if he had helped them become better people, every seat covering the Washington University Field House floor was emptied.

Starting this year, students have the option to major solely in American Culture Studies (AMCS), a course of study that previously could only be a secondary major. In light of the change, the major has been redesigned to provide students with some of the depth they would have garnered from a second major in the past.

Starting this year, students have the option to major in American Culture Studies (AMCS) alone, a course of study that previously could only be a secondary major. The major has been redesigned with more structure, providing students with some of the depth they would have previously garnered from a second major. New elements of the [...]