Author: Ken Duenke

Photo by Mary ButkusNurse Marilyn Bennett won the Guiding Star Award, which is given annually to honor a clinical staff member at the medical school.

John C. Danforth, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will deliver a major policy address at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in Graham Chapel. Danforth has a distinguished record of public service. Best-known for his 18-year run as Republican senator from Missouri, he also has served in a number of special capacities, most notably as special counsel to investigate the federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and as special envoy for peace to Sudan.

The Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, in conjunction with the John M. Olin School of Business and the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, will present a tax ethics forum on Oct. 29. “An Ethics Forum for Tax Practitioners” will be held from 8:45 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 29, preceded by a continental breakfast at 7:45 a.m., at May Auditorium in John E. Simon Hall. Peter J. Wiedenbeck, the Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of Law, and Nancy Pechloff, CPA, of the Olin School of Business will moderate the forum featuring five panelists.

Washington University School of Law will host the interdisciplinary conference, “Whiteness: Some Critical Perspectives,” 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. “This important conference, which brings together leading scholars in the fields of critical race theory and whiteness studies, will explore the ways whiteness and white privilege create, entrench, and reproduce themselves,” says Barbara Flagg, professor of law and conference organizer.

A minimally invasive approach to curing the most common heart rhythm abnormality, atrial fibrillation, takes half the time of the traditional surgical procedure but is equally effective, according to research at the School of Medicine.

The candidates butted heads issues including foreign policy, national security, the economy and deficits, health care and stem-cell research.

Many students joined friends in the common rooms of their residence houses or at one of the University’s eight remote sites.

Bill Kaiser’s hearty laugh broke Olin Library’s quiet as he looked at a photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson playfully pulling on the ears of one of his pet beagles. “(Johnson) got his tail in a crack with that one,” he said. The caption on the prize-winning photo, taken by Maurice Johnson in 1964, said, […]

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Nine faculty members give their opinions regarding what they heard, or didn’t hear, during the second presidential debate.