News highlights for September 30, 2010

The Wall Street Journal Online Olin School vaults to No. 2 in Wall Street Journal’s 2010 rankings of executive MBA programs 09/29/2010 The journey of the typical E.M.B.A. student has grown more complicated since The Wall Street Journal’s first ranking of executive M.B.A. programs in 2008. Consideration for students’ needs on the career front helped […]

Dedication of state-of-the-art engineering building on WUSTL campus

WHO: Washington University’s Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton; David W. Kemper, vice chair of the Washington University Board of Trustees; Ralph S. Quatrano, PhD, dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science; Melissa Holtmeyer, doctoral candidate, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering and student representative to the Board of Trustees; and Stephen F. Brauer, […]

News highlights for September 29, 2010

GenomeWeb At CSHL Conference, Researchers Cite First Examples of Clinical Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing 09/29/2010 As the cost of human whole-genome sequencing is plummeting, researchers are beginning to explore its usefulness in the clinic. Earlier this month, several groups presented some of the first examples of how whole-genome sequencing is helping doctors select a therapy […]

News highlights for September 28, 2010

Chronicle of Higher Education An elaborate ranking of doctoral programs makes its long-awaited debut – faculty 9/28/2010 Now it can be told. The American doctoral program with the longest median time-to-degree is the music program at Washington University in St. Louis: 16.3 years. That’s just one of a quarter million data points that appear in […]

Nicholas Kristof to speak Oct. 4

Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times and best-selling author, will present “Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide” at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in Graham Chapel. Kristof’s talk, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Lecture in Social Policy, is free and open to the public.

News highlights for September 27, 2010

The New York Times Ditch your laptop, dump your boyfriend 09/26/2010 Willie X. Lin, student in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis, offers tips for college students. “Chances are, if you are taking the time to read this advice, you already have the quality necessary to undertake the intellectual […]

The evolution of social identity

Hillel Kieval, PhD, the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, has spent the past 25 years studying European Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries. His chief focus is the various ways in which they identified with, and struggled against, their European environment.  
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