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Nineteen WUSTL schools, academic areas and departments at the graduate and professional levels currently hold top 10 rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of graduate and professional programs, which were released Friday, March 28.

Photo by Robert BostonGraduating medical students learn where they will do their residencies at Match Day March 20 in Moore Auditorium.

Photo by Whitney CurtisNearly 100 scholars from 70 institutions in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and across the United States gathered March 14 – 15 at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center for the annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

The Code of Conduct governs “members of the University community”: employees, volunteers and those who do business with the University. It states the ethical and legal standards that guide their decisions and actions as community members. The Code of Conduct is revised from time to time. An updated version of the code is always available […]

Peter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate professor of architecture, has received one of three national Creative Achievement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). MacKeith received the award for the design studio “Lighthouses: Adventures on the Mississippi,” which he led in the spring of 2007.

Washington University has received a $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to endow the “Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry” postdoctoral program in Arts & Sciences, announced Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The $1 million matching grant was awarded shortly after the University fulfilled its own $2 million commitment to endow the program this fall, more than one year ahead of schedule.

Katherine M. Grillo, Kenneth Harrington, Samuel L. Stanley Jr., Samuel A. Wickline, M.D., William A. Peck, M.D., and more …

WUSTL community members wishing to volunteer to help support the vice presidential debate at the University Oct. 2 can apply beginning April 14.

The Film and Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences will host the 2008 Italian Film Festival of St. Louis April 4 through April 19. The festival will feature the St. Louis premieres of six recent Italian feature films, screened on Fridays and Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. All films will be shown in 35mm […]

Renowned Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun will join award-winning American poet Brian Henry for a reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3. The event, sponsored by the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences as part of its spring Reading Series, is free and open to the public and takes place in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst […]