University endowment provides for future while funding present

To provide for the future, universities must be managed with an eye toward balancing the current requirements of students with the needs of those who will walk the same pathways hundreds of years in the future. To do that, it is essential that an institution like Washington University have a significant endowment.

Doctor and soldier

Photo by Robert BostonDaniel P. Gillen, M.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology and director of Trauma Anesthesia Services, is a doctor, and he’s also a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve.

Dome improvement

Photo by David KilperOn May 5, construction crews began raising a massive steel canopy structure up two stories over the School of Law’s Anheuser-Busch Hall, using the largest crane in Missouri.
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