Author: Ken Duenke

“The recent strikes by grocery workers in Missouri, California and West Virginia are indicative of a general economic dissatisfaction that could potentially expand into a broader confrontation between labor and management,” says Neil Bernstein, an expert in labor law and legal issues relating to striking workers and a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, is closely following the grocery strikes.

Photo by Bob BostonAward-winners Lee Epstein and Eugene M. Johnson Jr. greet each other at the recent Faculty Achievement Awards Ceremony.

This feature will be included in each 2003-04 issue of the Record in observation of Washington University’s 150th anniversary.

GWB will host “Shaping the Future of Doctoral Education in Social Work: National Meeting of Doctoral Programs in Social Work.”

Brenner’s talk will serve as the annual Arthur Holly Compton Memorial Lecture; Gomes’ presentation will be based on his most recent book.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District periodically holds sessions at law schools as part of an educational program.

Photo by Mary ButkusStudents, faculty and staff bought lunch and raffle tickets for prize baskets at GWB’s Cafe United Way and United Way Rally Raffle.

Photo by Mary ButkusUniversity Trustee Andrew Taylor and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton chat with Enterprise Rent-A-Car Scholarship recipients at a recent dinner.

File photoLei Wang, Deanna Barch and John Csernansky review brain images at the Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research.Researchers are working to identify changes as early as possible in an effort to halt Alzheimer’s progress before people become severely impaired.

A grant for $550,000 from the MacArthur Foundation will allow the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy to finish its long term research project which investigates the dynamics of family functioning and the well-being of children born to unmarried parents. Robert Pollak, Ph.D., Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in arts & sciences and the John M. Olin School of Business, co-directs the Network, which brings together 13 scholars in economics, sociology, developmental psychology and public policy to advance understanding of the connections between families, labor markets and the economy as a whole.