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Mary Butkus/WUSTL PhotoChancellor Mark S. Wrighton leads Scott Kennedy (center) and Gregg Kennedy into a room at Whittemore House for a special Commencement ceremony for the baseball team May 28. The team missed the May 15 Commencement ceremony because it was making an appearance in the NCAA Division III tournament.

Powell Niland, D.C.S., professor emeritus of management at Olin Business School, died April 19, 2009, in St. Louis. He was 89.

Kenneth L. Nabors, reference department chief at Olin Library from 1964-1981 and humanities librarian from 1981-1995, died May 22, 2009. He was 78.

David John Nolan, associate director of housing from 1985-1999 and associate director of off-campus housing from 1999-2005, died May 17, 2009, in O’Fallon, Ill. He was 56.

Ten WUSTL students have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for the 2009-10 academic year. Seven are recent graduates, and three are graduate students. They will spend a full academic year in a host country. The graduate students, along with their fields and locations of study, are Nicholas Efremov-Kendall, archeology, Ukraine; Maria Rosebury, English teaching assistantship, Germany; […]

B. Don Taylor III, J.D., has been named executive director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute and Cash Nickerson Fellow at the School of Law.

Washington University was recognized with four safety awards from national safety organizations this spring for crisis communications planning and demonstrating the safety of WUSTL work environments.

The employee 2008-09 U-Pass — allowing WUSTL faculty and staff free use of Metro, the region’s public transportation system — will expire June 30.

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Juniors Jenny Shirar (left) and Christian Frommelt cut a rug during Swing Dance Night June 2 in the Goldfarb Hall Commons.

Ting-Ting Chang, Ph.D., Eliotte Henderson, Cecil Slaughter, C. Robert Cloninger, M.D., and more…