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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.

Photo by Joe AngelesThere will be lots of grins to go around on Commencement, either before, during or after ceremonies. There also will be plenty of places in which to take that perfect photo, from the steps of Brookings Hall to inside the Quad to many beautiful points in and around the Danforth Campus.

David A. Ross, president of the senior class, hopes to help students focus on just how far they’ve come when he delivers the student speech at the 148th Commencement in Brookings Quadrangle.

The decision for implementing the Violent Weather Plan for Commencement ceremonies will be made by 7 a.m. Friday, May 15.