Woods give back to Washington University by establishing new professorship in business
Joyce and Howard Wood, both alumni of the John M. Olin School of Business, have created the Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professorship in Business. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the gift of $1.7 million, which has been augmented with $300,000 from the University’s Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge. William P. Bottom, Ph.D., will be formally installed as the first holder of this professorship at a later date.
Thomas L. Friedman’s Commencement address
The following is a transcript of Thomas L. Friedman’s Commencement address at WUSTL on May 21, 2004.
Images from Commencement 2004
More than 2,500 graduates and 10,000 of their friends and family members gathered under a sweltering morning sun for Washington University’s 143rd Commencement May 21. A total of 2,589 degrees were conferred, along with six honorary degrees, and three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas L. Friedman delivered the Commencement address.
Friedman to WUSTL Class of 2004: You have the responsibility to imagine
Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL photoThomas L. Friedman delivers his Commencement address, titled “Imagination.”Two dates — one good and one bad — have influenced the lives of this year’s graduates. Now they need to apply the lessons learned from both to their own lives.
Campus Watch
There is no Campus Watch section in this issue of the Record.
A visionary leader
With Brookings Hall standing sentinel in the spring sun, then-University Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot presented an aspiring young scientist his bachelor’s degree 36 years ago. After a 30-year career as an internationally renowned pediatric geneticist, Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., came full circle when he returned home to Washington University last summer to assume the positions […]
Physician-scientists elected to prestigious research organization
The American Society for Clinical Investigation has honored Daniel Brennan, David Holtzman, Barry Sleckman and Dwight Towler.
Track and field sets three school records
The track and field team competed at the Dr. Keeler Invitational, hosted by North Central College May 14 in Naperville, Ill. WUSTL set three school records on the day, two of which came from the women. Junior Hallie Hutchens placed second in the 100-meter hurdles, clocking a school-record 14.47 seconds. The mark is only 4/100 […]
Employee Appreciation Picnic June 11
Music, games, prizes and Ted Drewes frozen treats will be included in the event from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Hudlin Park.
Gallery of graduates
From running with the bulls in Spain to patenting impressive technology, read about the feats of some of the University’s graduates.
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