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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.

Erik TrinkausA human jawbone (left), dated to between 34,000 and 36,000 years ago, along with a facial skeleton (center) and a temporal bone (right).A research team co-directed by Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, has dated a human jawbone from a Romanian bear hibernation cave to between 34,000 and 36,000 years ago. That makes it the earliest known modern human fossil in Europe. Other human bones from the same cave — a temporal bone, a facial skeleton and a partial braincase — are still undergoing analysis, but are likely to be the same age. The jawbone was found in February 2002 in Pestera cu Oase — the “Cave with Bones” — located in the southwestern Carpathian Mountains. The other bones were found in June 2003.

TeachoutTerry Teachout, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, will present a pair of events for Washington University’s 2003-04 Center for the Humanities’ Writers Series Oct. 13-14.

The Washington University Gallery of Art will host An Evening With Comic Artists Charles Burns and Gary Panter at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, in Steinberg Auditorium.

Iain Boyd Whyte, professor of architectural history at the University of Edinburgh, will speak for the Washington University Gallery of Art at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in Steinberg Auditorium.

Barbara Ehrenreich spent two years ‘walking the poverty line’ and her best-selling book, ‘Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America tells how tough the poor really have it.