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Washington University in St. Louis is joining two other universities in a new center devoted to developing the basis for environmentally friendly chemical processes. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC) headquartered at the University of Kansas has been selected to receive $17 million under the NSF Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) program. Additional funding streams and donated facilities as a result of the award are expected to bring the total package value to nearly $30 million.

Master carpenter Tamotsu Edo of Awajishima, Japan, will work with students from the Washington University School of Architecture to construct and install a traditional Japanese teahouse waiting bench, or koshikake machiai, in the university’s Elizabeth Danforth Butterfly Garden.

Russell MaynorBryantBass baritone Stephen Bryant will join forces with pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, for the Department of Music’s annual Liederabend at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5.

David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoGuys and Dolls at Edison Theatre Oct. 10-12, 17-19.New York dives and nightlife hotspots, gamblers and chorus girls and Salvation Army bands. Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present Guys and Dolls, the quintessential American musical, as its fall 2003 Mainstage production.

Five-time Tour de France champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong will make an exclusive appearance in St. Louis at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Oct. 15 to promote cancer research.

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Forbes Magazine has ranked the M.B.A. program at the University’s Olin School of Business No. 12 among 67 U.S. business schools. The Forbes rankings measure best “return on investment” for M.B.A. graduates of the Class of 1998. For this year’s survey, Forbes sent out 18,000 questionnaires to full-time graduates of M.B.A. programs around the world. With a five-year gain of $120,000 over tuition and foregone salary, the Olin School jumped eight places, from No. 20 in Forbes’ last ranking of M.B.A. programs in 2001.

May you grow up strong and lovely with a mind that seeks the truth and a heart that knows compassion and a dream that pulls you through. Assistant to the Chancellor Steven J. Givens wrote that years ago as part of “A Dream That Pulls You Through,” a lullaby for his then-infant daughter, Jenny. “I […]

SadatLeila Sadat, professor of law at Washington University and one of the country’s leading experts in international and comparative law, discusses Bush’s address before the UN’s General Assembly and his proposals for the future of Iraq with Mike Sampson of KWMU’s St. Louis on the Air on Sept. 23. Listen to the program from the KWMU Web site.

Gloria W. White, vice chancellor emerita for human resources, died Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003 of cardiac arrest. She was 69.