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According to Charity Navigator, Washington University leads the list of consistently excellent charitable-giving colleges and universities in terms of financial efficiency. In its most recent annual rankings, Washington University received an overall rating of 69.58 out of a possible 70 points in Charity Navigator’s financial evaluation, putting it in the top spot among the 50 four-star rated academic institutions.

Led by captain Tom Hanks (no, not that one!), the University’s Quiz Bowl team ponders a question in the 1961 finals of the game show. WUSTL lost in the finals to Pomona College. Team members were (from left) Marcella Milcic, Hanks, Valerie Rudolph and Holden Baker. The GE College Quiz Bowl was popular in the […]

A bequest from the estate of Isidore and Edith Silver will establish the Isidore and Edith Silver Washington University Fellowship Fund, it was announced by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The Silvers bequeathed more than $1 million in support of fellowships for doctoral students of French Renaissance in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences, the department where Silver taught from 1957 until his retirement in 1975.

Everett Mendelsohn, one of America’s foremost historians of science, will deliver the Thomas Hall Lecture titled “Dolly and the Historians: Science, Politics and Ethics of Cloning” as part of the Washington University Assembly Series at 4 p.m., Thursday, November 13. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in Rebstock Hall, Room 215, located just east of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth Blvd) on the Washington University campus.

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Students in the School of Fine Arts work on their freehand drawing in March 1929, shortly after the school moved from what had been the British Pavilion in the 1904 World’s Fair to its current location in Bixby Hall. Less than a decade after the move, the school — under the leadership of Dean Kenneth […]

In high school, John M. Lasala learned the most pivotal and enduring lesson of his life: Persistence and dedication are the keys to success. LeRoy Vaughn, Lasala’s football coach and chemistry teacher — not to mention father of New York Mets first baseman Mo Vaughn — taught his undersized team to capitalize on its strengths […]

Author Adam Hochschild will deliver the annual Holocaust Memorial lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 11 a.m. The lecture, entitled “The Holocaust in the Congo – Then and Today,” is free and open to the public. It will be held in Graham Chapel, located just north of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth Blvd.) on the Washington University campus.Hochschild’s talk will be based on his acclaimed book, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998).

Scientist and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram will give a presentation based on his book, A New Kind of Science, at 4 p.m. Nov. 6 in Graham Chapel for Washington University’s Assembly Series. The event is free and open to the public. Graham Chapel is located just north of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth).

The dedication of Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering on Oct. 20, 2003, was a major step forward in a plan begun more than a decade ago to launch a nationally prominent department in this rapidly growing field. It also crystallizes the ongoing collaboration of researchers in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Medicine begun more than 40 years ago.