Goodbye Giants Trees on Brookings Drive at Washington University!
We have known for a long time that the construction was going to begin here on the east end of the Washington University campus, but it is still sad to see all the tall, huge trees along Brookings Drive disappear. Starting on Tuesday they have been cutting them down and the canopy of green in front of Brookings Hall is quickly disappearing. Here is a time lapsed animated GIF taken from a camera we set up in our building . Refresh the page or click on the image to see the time loop again: With the east construction and east parking lots gone, everyone from our building is now parking in the Millbrook lots and walking to our building from there. Unfortunately, the construction in the middle of campus is blocking the pathway in front of chemistry (Louderman) so the best route is to walk along Throop and take the detour north of Throop that heads down near Forest Park Parkway, and then follow Throop to our building (taking the pathway between Urbauer and Compton to c