Author: Gerry Everding

Courtesy PhotoShe has touched young lives as a volunteer in the orphanages of Chile and Mexico and as a tutor in low-income Hispanic neighborhoods of south St. Louis.

What challenges does globalization present for industrialized economies, such as the United States and the European Union? How will fluctuations in dollar and euro exchange rates affect economic growth, inflation and interest rates? Will globalization influence the role of the dollar and the euro in international financial systems? These are a few of the questions to be explored May 25 as high-ranking international finance policymakers from the European Union and the United States join scholars for a conference on “The Euro and the Dollar in a Globalized Economy” at Washington University in St. Louis.

Five undergraduates pursuing unpaid public-service internships will be the first beneficiaries of a new Public Service Summer Stipend program.

Professor Emeritus James W. Davis is stepping down as director of the institute, which was launched last year.

Photo by Kevin LowderA painting by local artist Gilbert “Chic” Early will be displayed at the Weidenbaum Center in honor of the highly respected WUSTL professor and public-policy scholar.

McBride will become the next director, succeeding Jim Davis; Kurtzman will become associate director; Kristin Lappin will remain assistant director.

WarrenSpending by federal regulatory agencies is scheduled to decline when adjusted for inflation according to “Moderating Regulatory Growth: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007,” this year’s edition of the annual report on regulatory spending and staffing by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis.

“U.S.-China Business Relations” is the focus of a three-day academic symposium that kicks off with a public conference from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 11 in Room 311, Anheuser-Busch Hall. U.S.-China commercial relations and intellectual property rights are among topics to be covered.

Schaal and Epstein are among 195 men and women elected this year by the academy, an organization formed in 1870 to cultivate the arts and sciences.

“Incorporating more frequent classroom testing into a course may improve students’ learning and promote retention of material long after a course has ended,” Roddy Roediger says.