Newsroom Stories

For Bart Hamilton, it’s all about the questions. It’s the quest for answers that drives Hamilton, the Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurship for the Olin School of Business, to teach, research and mentor. A professor of economics, management and entrepreneurship at Olin School since 1996, Hamilton jams his time between classes with researching, mentoring students and junior faculty, and taking care of his 11-month-old twins, Bogdan and Nina. “I love doing research. I come to work every day challenged,” Hamilton says. “This is the best job in the world.”

He has been awarded an honorary fellowship in the internationally recognized Royal College of Surgeons of England.

The Center for Mental Health Services Research in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will celebrate its new designation Jan. 11.

Photo by Robert BostonAn art show Nov. 18 at the Bernard Becker Medical Library’s King Center benefitted the Center of Creative Arts’ Urban Arts Program in St. Louis.

At its Dec. 3 meeting, the Board of Trustees heard a presentation on career planning and placement by James E. McLeod and John A. Berg.

Swimmers, divers shatter school records The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams continued their strong performances at the Wheaton College Invitational. The women broke two more school records on the final day of competition, bringing their two-day total to six, en route to a third-place finish at the Invitational. The women posted 591 points, […]

“Be the Change” is the theme of the University’s annual celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m. Jan. 17 in Graham Chapel. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will begin the program with a welcome and remarks. The evening will include performances by Vashon High School’s drum line, the YMCA Boys Choir, the University’s Vision […]

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has appointed the committee and has named Professor Daniel L. Keating to serve as its chair.

A Pulitzer Prize-winner and the nation’s first female poet laureate, she died Dec. 1 of bone cancer at her home in University City.

Courtesy photoDozens of internationally renowned artists will be featured at Island Press’ second-annual holiday sale Dec. 19 in Bixby Hall.