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Should it be needed, the decision for implementing the violent weather plan for Commencement ceremonies will be made by 7 a.m. May 16. Major local radio and TV stations will be given the information and it will appear on wustl.edu and announced through campus e-mail.

Undergraduates and student groups who have demonstrated outstanding leadership on campus and in the community were presented with Excellence in Leadership Awards by the Office of Student Activities April 27 in Holmes Lounge. The award categories were student programming, progressive leadership, social justice and values congruence. The awards and their recipients follow: • Best Collaboration: […]

Two Washington University undergraduate students in Arts & Sciences have been named to USA TODAY’s annual all-USA College Academic Teams. Lonia Friedlander, a senior majoring in chemistry and earth and planetary sciences, a Fossett Fellow and a member of the Pathfinder Program, was named to USA TODAY’s Second Team. The Pathfinder Program is a four-year […]

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Scientists at the School of Medicine working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes. Researchers were able to examine the immune cells from isolated insulin-making structures in the pancreas known as the islets of Langerhans.

On May 5 and 6, 2008, construction crews raised a massive steel canopy structure up two stories over the School of Law’s Anheuser-Busch Hall using the largest crane in Missouri.

On May 6, President George W. Bush nominated Troy Paredes, J.D., professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, to serve as commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission. “Troy Paredes is an extraordinary lawyer, teacher, and scholar who cares about well-functioning securities markets,” said Kent Syverud, J.D., dean and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor. “He will make an excellent SEC Commissioner.”

There is an appropriate time and place for employers to monitor employees, according to a business professor at the Olin Business School. If done wrong, firms can lose their worker’s trust and willingness to go above and beyond.

The School of Law will bring together top comparative law scholars from around the world for “Law in Japan: A Celebration of the Works of John Owen Haley” Friday and Saturday, May 9 and 10, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. “John Haley is this nation’s leading Japanese legal scholar and a […]

Washington University’s Department of Athletics will host its 16th Annual W Club Golf Scramble June 9 at the Meadowbrook Country Club in Ballwin, Mo.