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The John M. Olin School of Business recently hired Karen Branding, EMBA ’03, as associate dean and director of marketing and communications and Dorothy Kittner, MBA ’94, as director of corporate relations.

The School of Law is hosting the Philip D. Shelton Symposium titled “A Higher Sense of Purpose: Access to Higher Education and the Professions” from 1-4:30 p.m. April 12 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. The symposium is the final event in the series “A Higher Sense of Purpose,” part of the Danforth Campus naming celebration.

Studying delayed gratification and risk, WUSTL researchers found that people are more likely to wait on collecting full payment for a non-consumable monetary reward than they are for any of three consumable rewards: beer, candy and soda.

Photo by Kevin LowderMembers of the Catholic Student Center’s Cod Squad (from left) Chris McGee, Patty Navarro and Dan Combest are served cod at the Friday night fish fry March 30 at St. Gabriel Parish in south St. Louis.

“Civic Service Worldwide,” a comprehensive collection of the latest research and policy developments in civic service worldwide, provides an informed assessment of what works and what doesn’t work in the field.

The following incidents were reported to University Police March 28-April 4. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Crime Alert On March 28, University […]

John M. Cary, M.D., an instructor in clinical medicine since 1958, died of cancer Thursday, March 15, 2007, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo. He was 74.

A mandible from a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and being studied by Erik Trinkaus Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences.Researchers at WUSTL and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing have been studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and have determined that the “out of Africa” dispersal of modern humans may not have been as simple as once thought.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ph.D., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, will deliver the keynote address for the 12th annual Chancellor’s Fellowship Conference at 2 p.m. April 26 in Graham Chapel at Washington University. Gates, also director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, will talk on “African Americans and Documentary Film.”

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced Monday that it has received proposals from 19 potential 2008 debate sites, including Washington University in St. Louis. The CPD will conduct site surveys during the next several months and plans to announce the final sites in October.