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Chancellors of Washington University in St. Louis No. Image Chancellor Term Notes 1 Joseph Gibson Hoyt: 1858–1863 [2] 2 William Chauvenet: 1863–1869 [3] – Abram Litton (acting) 1869–1870 3 William Greenleaf Eliot: 1870–1887 [4] – Marshall Snow (acting) 1887–1891 4 Winfield Scott Chaplin: 1891–1907 [5] – Marshall Snow (acting ...
Shirley is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The community is on Missouri Route 8 approximately six miles west of Potosi. Allen Branch flows through the community and enters the Sunnen Reservoir one mile to the north. [2]
Washington University's origins were in seventeen St. Louis business, political, and religious leaders concerned by the lack of institutions of higher learning in the Midwest. The effort to found the university was spearheaded by Missouri State Senator Wayman Crow , and Unitarian minister William Greenleaf Eliot , grandfather of the Nobel Prize ...
1978: Hamilton O. Smith, Washington University Medical Service 1956–1957; 1980: George D. Snell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1933–1934; 1986: Stanley Cohen, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1953–1959; 1986: Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1948-
After working for 22 years at the University of Chicago, Compton returned to St. Louis in 1946 to serve as Washington University's ninth chancellor. [30] Compton reestablished the Washington University football team, making the declaration that athletics were to be henceforth played on a "strictly amateur" basis with no athletic scholarships.
Washington University Medical Campus comprises 186 acres (75.3 ha) spread over about 18 city blocks, located along the eastern edge of Forest Park within the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis. Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, part of BJC HealthCare, are the teaching hospitals affiliated with the School of ...
Student Life (StudLife) is the independent student-run newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis.It was founded in 1878 and incorporated in 1999. It is published by the Washington University Student Media, Inc. [1] and is not subject to the approval of the University administration, thus making it an independent student voice.
St. Louis Children's Hospital was the first hospital in Missouri to implant the Berlin heart, [4] a ventricular assist device that serves as a bridge to transplant by supporting cardiac function. Today, St. Louis Children's Hospital's clinical and community outreach programs serve more than 250,000 patients annually.