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Myron S. Scholes, co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will speak on “Financial Innovation in a Chaotic Environment” at 11:30 a.m. April 8 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Scholes, the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance Emeritus at Stanford University, authored the “Black-Scholes Options Pricing Model,” which […]

The new program will be open to all applicants; the changes should not affect current Ervin Scholarships.

Courtesy photoDonald Antrim will read from his work April 16. Fiction writer Donald Antrim will read from his work at 4 p.m. Friday, April 16, for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

Qiu XiaolongSt. Louis-based poet, critic and crime novelist Qiu Xiaolong will present a pair of events April 19 and 20 for The SmartSet Series: Where Great Writers Read, sponsored by The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences.

Photo by Kevin LowderUniversity students and administrators recently toured the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

The women’s basketball team has proven to be one of the most dominant teams in any collegiate sport of the past 15 years. After defeating the University of Southern Maine in the 2000 national championship game, the Bears became the only Division III basketball team to win three straight national titles and just the second […]

The Washington University School of Medicine and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work are both ranked second in the nation, according to new graduate and professional rankings released April 2 by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The School of Medicine was tied for second in 2003 and has placed in the top 10 every year since the annual rankings began in 1987. It has ranked first in student selectivity — a measurement of student quality based on Medical College Admission Test scores, undergraduate grade-point average and the proportion of applicants selected — every year since 1998.

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present a chamber music concert featuring former faculty member George Silfies, principal clarinetist with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, at 8 p.m. Monday, April 12.

Joy Williams, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will give a talk on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 15.

Bob BostonResearchers prepare for a leukemia clinical trialA new state-of-the-art research facility dedicated to helping produce modified cells for treatment of cancer and other diseases recently opened at the Siteman Cancer Center. The Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) center is a haven of high-tech environmental control, comparable in some respects to the International Space Station, according to GMP Laboratory Director Gerhard Bauer.