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Benjamin F. Edwards III, Washington University trustee emeritus and former chairman, chief executive officer and president of A.G. Edwards Inc., died Monday, April 20, 2009, from prostate cancer. He was 77.

Twenty WUSTL schools, academic areas and departments at the graduate and professional levels currently hold top 10 rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of graduate and professional programs, which were released April 23.

Five finalists are vying for $150,000 — the largest social entrepreneurship award pool in the U.S. — tonight at Washington University in St. Louis. Winners of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (SEIC) will be announced at 5p.m. in May Auditorium, Simon Hall, on the Danforth Campus. More than 40 non-profit ventures entered the competition last fall — all are dedicated to creating social enterprises that boost the regional economy by creating jobs and in many cases reducing government costs for social programs. A Q & A session with reknowned Pittsburgh-based social entrepreneur BIll Strickland will kick-off the event.

Photo by Robert BostonEmployees tried out a bicycle at the Bear Bikers booth at the School of Medicine’s Health Happening ’09 health fair April 9-10.

Washington University in St. Louis will bestow honorary degrees on four pioneers and leaders in their respective fields during its 148th Commencement May 15. During the ceremony, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle, the university also will bestow more than 2,700 academic degrees on more than 2,600 students. Wendy Kopp, chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America, will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree.

Washington University will bestow honorary degrees on four pioneers and leaders in their respective fields during its 148th Commencement May 15.

Courtesy PhotoThe Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum exhibit “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future,” the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish-American architect of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, closes its St. Louis run Monday, April 27.

To reduce waste and share goods typically thrown away during campus and off-campus move-out with people in need, Washington University in St. Louis campus groups are organizing “Share Our Stuff” drop-offs on and off campus this spring and summer to benefit Operation Food Search, the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Lydia’s House.

WUSTL alumnus Dexter Fedor will examine “The Creative Life of a Walt Disney Executive From the Inside Out” during a talk at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at 3 p.m. Friday, April 24, in Steinberg Hall. Fedor is senior vice president of strategic marketing for the Walt Disney Studio, where he […]

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work will honor five distinguished individuals for outstanding service to their profession during its annual Alumni Awards celebration at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, in Whitaker Hall Auditorium. Three alumni will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards, and two faculty members will receive Distinguished Faculty Awards. Distinguished Alumni Awards Rita […]