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From running with the bulls in Spain to patenting impressive technology, read about the feats of some of the University’s graduates.

courtesy photoOscar Segovia works with physical therapist Cassandra Pate at the Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis.After Oscar Segovia was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle home from work, he was determined to walk again.

In 1963, the University obtained land classified as surplus property from the federal government and turned it into what is now the Tyson Research Center, a 2,000-acre field station near the Meramec River, just outside the St. Louis metropolitan area. In 1974, a sizable portion of Tyson was included in the Beaumont-Tyson Quarry District, a […]

Washington University’s 143rd Commencement is at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 21, 2004, in Brookings Quadrangle on campus. The university will bestow degrees on 2,589 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on six individuals. Thomas L. Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, best-selling author and foreign-affairs columnist for The New York Times, will deliver the Commencement address, titled “Imagination.”

Sara L. Johnson, associate dean and academic coordinator in the College of Arts & Sciences, died Monday, May 17, 2004 of metastatic neuroendocrine cancer. She was 47.

Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoCommencement 2004 at Washington University in St. Louis will feature more than a dozen distinguished speakers, both at the All-University Ceremony (May 21) and at individual school diploma and recognition ceremonies (May 19-21).

KemperThe Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis met Friday, May 14, at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center and elected David W. Kemper, president and chief executive officer of Commerce Bancshares Inc., as chairman of the board for the 2004-05 fiscal year, according to Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor. The trustees elected John F. McDonnell, retired chairman of the board of McDonnell Douglas Corp., and Stephen F. Brauer, chief executive officer of Hunter Engineering, as vice chairmen of the board.

FriedmanThomas L. Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, will deliver the 2004 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The university’s 143rd Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 21 in Brookings Quadrangle on campus. During the ceremony, Friedman will also receive an honorary doctor of laws.

In an experiment that demonstrates how maps of the genetic codes of simpler organisms can shed light on human disease, a computerized comparison of the complete genetic codes of a type of algae, a weed and humans has led medical researchers to a gene linked to a human illness.

In 1954, Chancellor Ethan A.H. Shepley and the University privately launched a three-year, $20 million Second Century Campaign, the second-largest capital fund drive conducted by any U.S. university at the time. When the campaign went public with a four-day convocation in February 1955, it was thought that some of the campaign funds should be used […]