Gephardt Institute stipends to support public service internships
Finances will be a little less daunting this summer for five Washington University undergraduates pursuing unpaid public service internships in New York, Washington, D.C., and the villages of East Africa. They will be the first beneficiaries of a new Public Service Summer Stipend program sponsored by the University’s Richard A. Gephardt Institute for Public Service.
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Maki & Associates, TokyoSaligman Family Atrium, Mildred Lane Kemper Art MuseumDownload high-resolution press images of Washington University’s new Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.
Collaboration, computers changing the nature of modern mathematical proofs, Krantz says
Steven Krantz says it’s becoming more difficult to verify proofs today and that the concept of the proof has undergone serious change over the past 30 years.
Educational workshops April 5-7: Planning for special-needs kids
Topics to be addressed include government benefit eligibility, guardianship/conservatorship, and financial security and funding options.
All-star CEOs lend their perspectives as they help Knight teach M.B.A. class at Olin School
The guest lecturers include Jack Welch, retired chairman and CEO of General Electric, and August Busch III, chairman of Anheuser-Busch Cos.
Sports
Buffa improves to 5-0; baseball team now 17-4 The baseball team went 2-2 last week to move to 17-4 overall. WUSTL opened with an 11-4 win March 24 against Elmhurst College. Junior Brent Buffa pitched a complete game, allowing eight hits and only three earned runs; he also struck out four to improve to 5-0. […]
Architecture education reinforces importance of sustainable design
Topics for intensive workshops will range from building technologies and sustainable building design to landscape design and urban and regional planning.
‘Benefits Plan for the Future’ unveiled by human resources
Objectives include addressing the rising costs of insurance, tuition assistance and retirement savings plans; and grandfathering all current benefits-eligible faculty and staff.
Keeping perspective on employment-at-will
Most Americans don’t think about employment-at-will until they’re terminated from their jobs. During her work at the Employment Law Center (ELC), a nonprofit public interest group in San Francisco, Pauline Kim, J.D., professor of law, saw firsthand that people simply did not know about this legal rule. “Each week, the ELC held a drop-in and […]
Annual American Indian Awareness Week, including powwow, April 3-8
The annual awareness week and powwow allow the University’s American Indian students to share their cultures with the rest of the campus and the St. Louis community.
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