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The show features more than 50 works by 23 of China’s finest contemporary practitioners; it opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. today.

Former president Jimmy Carter delivers an address as a guest of the School of Law in 1975 while he was still governor of Georgia. Carter returned to the University to speak as part of the Assembly Series on Feb. 28, 1991, when he gave an address in the Field House titled “Social Responsibility: Caring About […]

Photo by Mary Butkus / WUSTL PhotoStudy finds that the larger the bill, the smaller the tip percentage that food servers, hair stylists and cab drivers receive.Psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis say you may be cheaper than you think. They have shown that the larger the bill, the smaller the tip percentage that food servers, hair stylists and cab drivers receive. Compiling data from nearly 1,000 tips left in restaurants, hair salons and with cab drivers, the researchers found that the percent of the tip actually decreases with the amount of the bill across all three tipping situations. Their findings also indicate that with bills more than $100, the percent of the tip levels off — if the bill is $200, the server is likely to receive the same amount as if it were $100.

With five of six starters back from a team that is the reigning national runner-up, the University’s volleyball team was voted No. 1 in the 2003 American Volleyball Coaches Association Top 25 preseason poll. The Bears tallied 388 points in the poll, including eight first-place votes, putting them 19 points ahead of second-ranked Juniata College. […]

School of Medicine researchers have found that a chromosome defect often seen in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) can cause the same disease in mice when combined with a genetic defect in a molecule known as a tyrosine kinase receptor.

Washington University undergraduates help pull weeds at Hamilton Elementary School during the fourth annual Service First in 2002. As part of the St. Louis Public School’s “First Day, Every Day” initiative, more than 1,000 Washington University students will volunteer their time to landscape, paint, clean and renovate several schools to make the upcoming year more pleasant for teachers and students alike.

Bruce Fegley, Ph.D., and his colleagues in the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory here will conduct experiments on the origin of organic compounds in the solar nebula, the cloud of gas and dust from which the sun, Earth and other objects in the solar system formed. Fegley’s group will use the experimental results and other data to […]

HilgertRaymond L. Hilgert, D.B.A., Emeritus Professor of Management and Industrial Relations at Washington University’s John M. Olin School of Business, died Saturday, August 23, 2003 at St. Luke’s Hospital after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 73 and lived in Kirkwood. Hilgert, an award-winning teacher, author, labor arbitrator, nationally-recognized media commentator, and business ethicist, taught at the University from 1961 to 2001. In an article published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch upon Professor Hilgert’s retirement from the business school, former students explained the impact he had on their lives and careers. It is reprinted here by permission: “Ray Hilgert Leaves Legacy of Learning at Washington U” (July 22, 2001).

(Republished with permission from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This article originally ran in the Business section on Sunday, July 22, 2001)

BollingerPresident of Columbia University and a law professor, Lee C. Bollinger focuses primarily on free speech and First Amendment issues. He will deliver the inaugural Assembly Series lecture at Washington University. with a talk entitled “The Foundations of the Principles of Academic Freedom,”