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The Bear Necessities store in Wohl Student Center is having a sale of 25 percent to 75 percent off on select WUSTL apparel, including T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats and pants. The sale will continue while supplies last. Bear Necessities is operated by The Women’s Society of Washington University. For more information, call 935-5071.

The softball team posted five wins to improve to 21-0. Washington U. swept a doubleheader with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point March 24 at WUSTL Field, then won three games in the 4th Annual Lee’s Sports Midwest Region Invitational. Freshman Laurel Sagartz and sophomore Ashley Johnson combined to throw the first no-hitter in school history […]

He had been a planned giving officer in Special Development Programs; he succeeds Paul Schoon, who retired.

Photo by David KilperResearcher Christine Floss checks the sample chamber of the NanoSIMS instrument on the fourth floor of Compton Hall.Christine Floss says the organic material probably was formed in molecular clouds in the interstellar medium before the formation of the solar system.

Myron S. Scholes, co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will speak on “Financial Innovation in a Chaotic Environment” at 11:30 a.m. April 8 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Scholes, the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance Emeritus at Stanford University, authored the “Black-Scholes Options Pricing Model,” which […]

As part of the recognition of the Sesquicentennial, a statue of the University’s namesake will be placed adjacent to Olin Library.

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

Photo by Kevin LowderUniversity students and administrators recently toured the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

The women’s basketball team has proven to be one of the most dominant teams in any collegiate sport of the past 15 years. After defeating the University of Southern Maine in the 2000 national championship game, the Bears became the only Division III basketball team to win three straight national titles and just the second […]

The Washington University School of Medicine and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work are both ranked second in the nation, according to new graduate and professional rankings released April 2 by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The School of Medicine was tied for second in 2003 and has placed in the top 10 every year since the annual rankings began in 1987. It has ranked first in student selectivity — a measurement of student quality based on Medical College Admission Test scores, undergraduate grade-point average and the proportion of applicants selected — every year since 1998.