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The 17th annual W Club Golf Scramble will take place June 15 at the Meadowbrook Country Club in Ballwin, Mo.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoInexperience and time give recent college graduates an advantage in solving the problems of inequity in education in the United States, said Wendy Kopp to the Class of 2009 during the 148th Commencement ceremony. A slideshow of Commencement images is included.

An opening ceremony for what could be the greenest building in the Midwest will take place at 4 p.m. May 29 at the Living Learning Center at the Tyson Research Center — 2,000 acres of woods, prairie, ponds and savannas, located approximately 20 miles southwest of the Danforth Campus where dozens of WUSTL faculty do predominantly environmental research.

Washington University’s 148th Commencement will be held at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 15, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university will bestow 2,765 degrees on 2,642 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on four individuals. Wendy Kopp, chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America, will deliver the 2009 Commencement address. During the ceremony, Kopp also will receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree. Washington University’s three other honorary degree recipients are Robert L. Virgil Jr., Ph.D.; Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D.; and Patty Jo Watson, Ph.D.

Dennis E. Hallahan, M.D., has been chosen to head the Department of Radiation Oncology at the School of Medicine. Hallahan Hallahan will be named the first Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III Distinguished Professor in Medicine and will serve on the senior leadership committee of the Siteman Cancer Center. The appointment was announced by […]

The new Master of Public Health program at Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work is offering a full-tuition, merit-based scholarship to registered nurses who want to advance their interest in public health, specifically community health and wellness. The scholarship is available to prospective students who have at least a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

The new Master of Public Health program at Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work is offering a full-tuition, merit-based scholarship to students who improve the health of communities and populations locally, nationally, and internationally. Undergraduate pre-medicine majors, medical students, and physicians are encouraged to apply.

The new Master of Public Health program at Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work is offering a new, full-tuition, merit-based scholarship to support students interested in using their skills and interests in communications, journalism, marketing, public policy, psychology, sociology, and related fields to improve the health of communities and populations locally, nationally and internationally.

Photo by David KilperMaster’s and doctoral students get the honor of “hooding” each other after the conferral of their degrees. The colors of the hoods represent the schools from which the graduates earned degrees.

Photo by Robert BostonAaron Hamvas, M.D. (right), the James P. Keating, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, discusses the levels of care provided in the NICU to a group of neonatologists from China and to Heather Haeberle (third from left), nurse manager of the NICU.