Author: Ken Duenke

(Republished with permission from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This article originally ran in the Business section on Sunday, July 22, 2001)

BollingerPresident of Columbia University and a law professor, Lee C. Bollinger focuses primarily on free speech and First Amendment issues. He will deliver the inaugural Assembly Series lecture at Washington University. with a talk entitled “The Foundations of the Principles of Academic Freedom,”

Bob BostonThe School of Medicine throws a party for a group of cerebral palsy patients from around the world, at the medical school for extended treatment and care.

Thousands are expected to visit the campuses for the all-day celebration, but volunteers are needed to help welcome the guests.

This feature will run in each 2003-04 issue of the Record as part of the observance of Washington University’s 150th anniversary.

Professor and Chief of Surgery Fred T. Murphy performs the first operation, an appendectomy, at Barnes Hospital on Dec. 14, 1915. Five years earlier, the School of Medicine, which was established in 1891, had entered into an agreement with Barnes Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital that allowed the medical school to conduct clinical research […]

David KilperMiddle-school mathematics teachers met this summer to strengthen curricula thanks to the University’s Science Outreach program.

Joe AngelesRick Larsen served as athletic trainer on the set of a soccer movie that was filmed in St. Louis this summer.

Washington University is among 15 universities across the country selected by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo., to participate in its “Kauffman Campuses Initiative,” a new program aimed at making entrepreneurship education a common and accessible opportunity campus-wide. The Kauffman program builds on an emerging trend at colleges and universities — expanding […]

Good science requires knowing when to drop bad ideas, explains Michael M. Mueckler, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and physiology. “You may have worked on something for two or three years,” he says. “But at some point, you have to look at the long series of results, use the data to evaluate your original hypothesis […]