St. Louis-based merchant Wayman Crow and his pastor, William Greenleaf Eliot Jr., founded Washington University in St. Louis in 1853. This private research university is located in St. Louis, Missouri, on a 346-acre campus. It is consistently ranked as one of the top schools in the U.S., specifically for medicine, social work, business and law. Notable alumni include Indian film actress Richa Gangopadhyay, former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Andrew McCabe, celebrity plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer, playwright Tennessee Williams and Former Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. Twenty-three Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with WashU, including Arthur Compton for physics, Alfred Hershey for physiology or medicine and William E. Moerner for chemistry. The university has been ranked as having some of the best college dorms, and the 1881-established Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, located on campus, is one of the oldest teaching museums in the U.S. The university is an NCAA Division III school, as well as a founding member of the University Athletic Association. The varsity teams include men’s football and baseball and women’s softball and volleyball. WashU’s colors are red and green and the mascot is the bear. The official motto is “Per Veritatem Vis” or “Strength through Truth.”
St. Louis is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The city had an estimated 2018 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan area , which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th-largest in the United States. Prior to European settlement, the area was a major regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. More from Wikipedia...
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