In a photograph dated 1918, a World War I Army sergeant stands over a row of ceramic jugs and wooden barrels, lined up near a gaping hole in the ground.

The Army Corps of Engineers’ contractors were excavating World War I chemicals on the South side of campus in 2003 when they made a puzzling discovery.

Near the Child Development Center, the Army Corps unearthed the rusted frame of a four-door sedan, manufactured in the 1920s.

This story is the fifth in a series investigating World War I-era chemical weapons and equipment buried under AU’s campus and in the Spring Valley neighborhood

This story is the fourth in a series investigating World War I-era chemical weapons and equipment buried under AU’s campus and in the Spring Valley neighborhood.

While U.S. Army scientists tested chemical weapons at AU during World War I, one engineer saw it all — even the experiments gone horribly wrong. 

This story is the second in a series investigating World War I-era chemical weapons and equipment buried under AU’s campus and in the Spring Valley neighborhood.

By the summer of 1917, there were 2,100 U.S. Army soldiers and officers stationed and ready for training at “Camp American University,” with thousands more to come. The new tenants transformed the campus. Before their arrival, the only structures on campus were the College of History, now known as Hurst Hall, and a half-finished McKinley Building.

The university will increase undergraduate tuition, housing and meal costs this fall. Tuition will also increase for Master of Business Administration students.

President Kerwin’s salary is “reasonable,” said Board of Trustees Chairman Gary Abramson at a town-hall-style meeting Nov. 19.

The AU Board of Trustees disputes President Neil Kerwin’s $1.4 million salary, as The Chronicle of Higher Education reported earlier this week.

Swine flu vaccines will be available to AU students either the week of November 9 or 16 at the Student Health Center.