The WashU Arboretum is now welcoming design submissions from WashU students for the 2025 Arboretum token, featuring this year’s Tree of the Year, Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa). Design requirements: Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025 All current Washington University students, graduate and undergraduate, are welcome to submit their art for the Arboretum’s third annual Tree of the Year […]
The WashU Arboretum recently received Level III accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program. Campus will be adding more trees near new ArtSci building. Read more »
Stan Braude, a professor of practice in biology in Arts & Sciences and the curator of the WashU arboretum, died at home Saturday, June 1, 2024, after a short illness. He was 62.
A clone of the felled tree will grow where the original stood for more than 100 years
Arboretum curator Stan Braude shares his goal for the campus landscape as well as for those who enjoy it.
Buder Center hosted planting ceremony led by Native American people
WashU has been awarded a Level 2 accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Arboretum for achieving standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens.
Washington University in St. Louis has again earned Tree Campus USA status from the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management.
An official Tree Campus USA school, university boasts 4,200 trees on 169 acres
Washington University in St. Louis has been awarded a Level 1 accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Arboretum for achieving standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens.
East end transformation will feature 350 new trees
WashU receives plaque designating the tree’s historical significance
A collaborative effort between students, staff and the University administration has resulted in the planned planting of 11 trees on the Hilltop Campus to mark Earth Day 2006.