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Photo by David KilperThe University’s 145th Commencement ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will confer degrees during today’s 145th Commencement ceremony, which will start at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.

The two-term Student Union President also was on the University’s club gymnastics team and later became a coach at a local gymnastics center.

After this issue, the Record will phase into its monthly summer publication schedule.

Washington University will bestow degrees on more than 2,630 undergraduate, graduate and professional students during its 145th Commencement at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 19, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on five individuals. Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, will deliver the 2006 Commencement address. His talk is titled “The Changing World.”

George Warren Brown School of Social Work students in Dr. Stephanie Boddie’s community development class have been working with the St. Louis County Planning Department and the Glasgow Village Trustees to lay the groundwork for a Community Improvement District for unincorporated Glasgow Village.

John MajorThe Right Honorable Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, will deliver the 2006 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis. The university’s 145th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 19 in Brookings Quadrangle. During the ceremony, Washington University will award honorary degrees to five prominent people, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a pioneering scholar of African and African-American literature. The university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,500 students.

There are no campus watch items for this issue of the Record.

Five undergraduates pursuing unpaid public-service internships will be the first beneficiaries of a new Public Service Summer Stipend program.

The showing marks the University’s highest finish at College Bowl nationals since twice coming in second, in 1980 and 1984.

It’s perhaps the one day of the year when Hilltop Campus staff members are actually encouraged to take a long lunch, go play some golf or have a leisurely walk around campus for a couple of hours. Whether you want to celebrate the end of the academic year with a competitive game of softball, tossing […]