Author: Jessica Daues

WUSTL’s Office of Human Resources cordially invites faculty and staff to a Financial Education Seminar conducted by TIAA-CREF and Vanguard consultants. The seminar will feature a discussion of basic investment choices and a review of some simple strategies and concepts to make sound investment decisions.

Byron L. Williams, Ph.D., affiliate professor of engineering and policy from 1989-1992, died Sunday, March 16. He was 87.

Photo by David KilperAdmissions office helpers put the finishing touches on welcome packets to be distributed to visiting students during the University’s Multicultural Celebration Weekend, which begins Thursday, April 10.

At recent Board of Trustees meetings, faculty members were promoted with tenure, appointed with tenure or granted tenure effective July 1, 2008.

As part of Washington University’s initiative to enhance campus sustainability, Resource Management has partnered with WUSTL’s office products contractor, Corporate Express, to encourage the University’s use of “green,” environmentally friendly products. WUSTL has asked Corporate Express to automatically substitute the equivalent green, environmentally friendly item when certain items, such as paper, are requisitioned or ordered. […]

The court ballet “La Naissance de la Paix” (“The Birth of Peace”) has been translated to English for the first time in a book by Richard A. Watson, Ph.D., professor emeritus of philosophy in Arts & Sciences. Along with providing the translation, the book, “Descartes’s Ballet: His Doctrine of the Will and His Political Philosophy,” demonstrates that the ballet, commissioned by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1650 and long attributed to French philosopher Rene Descartes, was almost certainly not written by him.

Television news personality Chris Matthews has been selected to give the 2008 Commencement address, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

The Code of Conduct governs “members of the University community”: employees, volunteers and those who do business with the University. It states the ethical and legal standards that guide their decisions and actions as community members. The Code of Conduct is revised from time to time. An updated version of the code is always available […]

Washington University has received a $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to endow the “Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry” postdoctoral program in Arts & Sciences, announced Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The $1 million matching grant was awarded shortly after the University fulfilled its own $2 million commitment to endow the program this fall, more than one year ahead of schedule.

Nineteen WUSTL schools, academic areas and departments at the graduate and professional levels currently hold top 10 rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of graduate and professional programs, which were released Friday, March 28.