The keeper of the flame
After 24-plus years of serving the university in Public Affairs and the chancellor’s office as associate vice chancellor and chief of staff to Mark Wrighton, Steve Givens is retiring. Here’s a look back, and a look forward to his next stage of life.
‘Education is transformative’
On May 22, the Washington University Prison Education Project (PEP) conducted its first Commencement at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, Missouri. Joe Angeles, director of Washington University Photo Services, documented the day.
Meet the 2019 cohort of College Prep Scholars
Washington University in St. Louis has admitted 49 rising high school sophomores to its innovative College Prep Program, a multiyear initiative that prepares high-achieving students with limited financial resources for college. Recent graduates of the program have been admitted to Yale, John Hopkins, Spelman and Washington University and have received millions in scholarship offers.
Grant expands support for minority, women-owned startups
JPMorgan Chase & Co. recently awarded Washington University’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship a $100,000 planning grant as part of its Ascend 2020 Initiative.
The Wrighton years by the numbers
A look at Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton’s impact on the university by the numbers.
Notes from the right-hand man
What I learned from Mark Wrighton
Washington University creates faculty group to spur thinking, dialogue around Better Together
The university has convened a faculty group to consider the Better Together proposal from various perspectives and areas of expertise and to offer opportunities for the campus community to engage in dialogue.
Designing Successful Systems
Stories of Change: Volume 1
Written by area educators, this book is a series of stories on their efforts to modernize education in the St. Louis region. The book’s lead chapter, “Experiencing Real Science,” reveals how the innovative mySci curriculum, developed by the Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis, is transforming science education in local schools.
Taking Possession
The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House
West of downtown St. Louis sits an 1851 town house that bears no obvious relationship to the monumental architecture, trendy condominiums, and sports stadia of its surroundings. Originally the residence of a fur-trade tycoon and now the Campbell House Museum, the house has been subject to energetic preservation and heritage work for some 130 years. […]
Recognizing Leading Together’s impact, Wrightons’ ‘selfless service’
It was a true celebration when nearly 1,200 members of the Washington University in St. Louis community came together at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel Dec. 7 to recognize the successful conclusion of Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University and to honor Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and his wife, Risa Zwerling Wrighton.
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