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Washington University in St. Louis is one of eight U.S. universities selected by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to share $25 million in grants through a program designed to make entrepreneurship education available across campus and transform the way entrepreneurship is viewed, taught and experienced. “Entrepreneurship is not a fad – it’s an enduring American phenomenon that’s as common as getting married or having a baby, said Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation.

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Jeff Pike was about to meet the police when he made a terrible realization. Pike, now the dean of the School of Art, was then a junior at the Kansas City Art Institute and had been assigned to the Kansas City Police Department for a class on community graphic design. A week prior, detectives had […]

Researchers found that the treatment blocked bone metastases and reduced the development of new tumors in certain organs.

Members of the Washington University Effort for AIDS help assemble an 11,000-panel section of the Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was displayed in the Field House Oct. 14-16, 1994. The group teamed with the NAMES project and St. Louis Effort for AIDS to bring this portion of the then-27,000-panel quilt to St. Louis and reassemble […]

American artist Frank Stella has remained a prominent and innovative practitioner of abstract painting since the late fifties. Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, Stella studied painting at the Phillips Academy in Andover and at Princeton University, where he graduated in 1958 with a degree in history. In 1959 he moved to New York and […]

Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker are CEO and vice president, respectively, of Carr Lane Manufacturing Co., one of the world’s foremost suppliers of tooling components. In addition, over the last 30 years their subsidiary Carr Lane Castings — formerly Brentwood Castings, Inc. — has earned a national reputation for fabricating bronze, brass, aluminum, stainless […]