Month: May 2017

The Campus Kitchen at Washington University seeks volunteers during the summer to help prepare meals for the hungry. Cooking shifts are 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays from June 6 through Aug. 10 at the First Congregational Church on Wydown Boulevard.

For the first time, a group of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis used a big-data approach to determine the effects of minimum-wage changes on business. The Olin Business School faculty processed wage data on more than 2 million hourly workers from across the country over a six-year period. The results? There are winners and losers.

The May 22 issue marks the last daily Record of the 2016-17 academic year. The next issue will be published Wednesday, May 31, and then twice weekly through the summer. Visit The Source for the latest news between issues.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Read the full text of Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton’s message to the graduates at Washington University in St. Louis’ 156th Commencement ceremony May 19, 2017.

Anna Quindlen challenges new graduates to pick up their academic credentials and then to use them fearlessly.

Anna Quindlen, a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, delivered the address at Washington University in St. Louis’ 156th Commencement ceremony. Read her inspirational remarks delivered to the Class of 2017 on Friday, May 19, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

Here is the text of graduate student Wei Zhu’s message to 2017 graduates. Zhu earned a law degree.

Washington University will award degrees to more than 3,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree candidates during its 156th Commencement May 19.

At the Chancellor’s Dinner for Graduating Seniors, held May 15 at the Marriott Grand Hotel, Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton presented 19 seniors with the university’s top student honors.