CGI U announces 2013 speakers; new CGI University Network to fund student commitments
President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton announced the program and featured participants for the sixth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) to be held at Washington University in St. Louis April 5-7. In addition to President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and WUSTL’s Michael Sherraden are among the featured speakers.
2013 CGI U speakers at WUSTL
A complete list of the featured speakers at Clinton Global Initiative University on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis April 5-7, 2013.
Project Blacktop: Student athlete Cooney works to make a difference in St. Louis
Student athlete Tim Cooney grew up in St. Louis and rarely had a place where his friends could gather and play a pickup game of basketball. Cooney, a junior guard on the WUSTL men’s basketball team, is trying to change that for future generations.
Cameras in CWE and on Medical Campus among new security steps taken
Ninety-one security cameras are being installed in the Central West End, 60 of which will be funded by the Washington University Medical Center. An additional 42 such cameras will be installed throughout the medical campus. The cameras are part of ongoing security efforts that also include more bike patrols.
Engineers Week inspires current and future engineers
The annual Engineers Week, held Feb. 25-March 2,
featured activities ranging from a paper airplane contest to a butter-sculpting competition to a lecture
by cast members of the Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters” television show. Read more to see video and photos.
Senior Jeremy I. Pivor named a Luce Scholar
The Henry Luce Foundation named Jeremy I. Pivor one of
18 scholars in the 40th class of Luce Scholars this February. Chosen
from a field of 168 nominees, he is the third Washington University
student to be named a scholar in the past four years.
Art and politics during World War II
Does art have a moral duty to be politically engaged? On Thursday, March 7, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will explore that question and more with “Committed Culture: A Panel Discussion on Politics and Aesthetics During World War II.”
Trustees meet, hear presentations on orthopedic surgery developments
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Thursday and Friday, Feb. 28 and March 1, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton reported on a number of recent developments on the Medical and Danforth campuses. Trustees also heard special reports on innovations and developments in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine.
SCOTUS oral arguments reflect indifference to constitutional grounding of Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court appears very likely to strike down the most important provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, says Gregory P. Magarian, JD, constitution law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “This was an unusually revealing oral argument, because two justices asked questions that reflected both fundamental misunderstanding of the law and disturbing indifference to the constitutional grounding of the Voting Rights Act,” he says.
Trocchi, Wagoner literary archives added to Modern Literature Collection
A pair of extensive, unique collections arrived at Washington University Libraries in recent weeks, their wide-ranging contents anticipated to be of much interest to scholars and others wishing to explore the remarkable literary career of either David Wagoner or Alexander Trocchi.
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