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Surrounded by more than 12,000 family, friends, faculty, staff, administrators and university trustees, the Class of 2015 will enter Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus at 8:30 a.m. as degree candidates and leave as graduates after Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton confers their degrees.

Washington University in St. Louis Senior Class President Jeremy Sherman’s message to the graduating Class of 2015 can be found here. Sherman, from West Bloomfield, Mich., earned a bachelor of science in business administration degree from the Olin Business School with a second major in political science from the College of Arts & Sciences.

Studying West Nile virus infection in mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that an antiviral compound tightens the blood-brain barrier, making it harder for the virus to invade the brain.

“Thank you for what you have done so far, but you have raised my expectations through your successes,” said Chancellor Mark Wrighton, at Washington University in St. Louis’ 2015 Commencement. “The future of the world depends on you!”

Ken Burns delivered a sobering call to action to the Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2015 at its 154th Commencement ceremony May 15. “We broke it, but you’ve got to fix it,” he told some 15,000 graduates, parents, friends and family members gathered in Brookings Quadrangle.

Filmmaker Ken Burns’ remarks to the Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2015. The university’s 154th Commencement ceremony was held Friday, May 15, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

A diabetes drug may have benefits beyond lower blood sugar in patients with HIV. New research from the laboratory of Kevin E. Yarasheski, PhD, suggests the drug may prevent cardiovascular problems because it works to reduce inflammation that is linked to heart disease and stroke in these patients. The drug both improved metabolism and reduced inflammation in HIV-positive adults on antiretroviral therapy.

Washington University’s 154th Commencement is at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 15, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university will award 2,974 degrees to 2,825 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on five individuals. Here are details to help you cover WashU’s Commencement.

​To the nearly 2 million people in the United States living with the loss of a limb, prosthetic devices provide restored mobility, yet lack sensory feedback. A team of engineers and researchers at Washington University is working to change that so those with upper limb prosthetics can feel hot and cold and the sense of touch through their prosthetic hands.

​Americans are generally a pretty happy bunch, according to a new study that aims to further our collective understanding of happiness and its root causes. Lamar Pierce, PhD, associate professor of organization and strategy in the Olin Business School, helped lead the research.​