Olin student team wins prestigious case competition
A team of Olin Business School graduate students
recently won the $5,000 first prize in the 18th annual International
Case Competition organized by Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of
Business. In
addition, the team of four MBA students and one master’s in supply chain
management student tied with MIT for the “Best Presentation” Award.
Washington People: Tamara Hershey
The brain uses more glucose than just about any other organ in the body, and Tamara Hershey, PhD, uses brain-imaging tools to study the effects of diabetes. She also studies Parkinson’s disease, obesity, Tourette syndrome and Wolfram syndrome, learning about how fluctuations in glucose levels can influence brain function.
School of Medicine, VA ophthalmologist honored at White House
A Washington University ophthalmologist was one of 31 finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal. David E. Vollman, MD, and the other finalists recently were honored in a White House ceremony praising the country’s civil servants.
School of Law’s trial team wins prestigious National Institute of Trial Advocacy 2013 Tournament of Champions
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law’s trial competition team placed first at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy 2013 Tournament of Champions, held in Birmingham, Ala.
‘Through darkest winds, I will fly to him.’
“John-John,” a new aria by playwright Carter W. Lewis and composer Kamala Sankaram, debuted recently as part of “November 21, 1963: The Day Before,” a multidisciplinary event marking the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Geography Awareness Week kicks off with lectures, geocaching competition
In celebration of Geography Awareness Week, the Data and GIS Services unit at Washington University Libraries, is hosting lectures, workshops and the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Challenge Nov. 18-22.
Students can sign up for firsthand look at Israeli startup scene
A partnership between Washington
University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School and the Interdisciplinary
Center in Herzliya, Israel, will give undergraduates from any
American college or university a firsthand look this summer at the burgeoning Israeli
startup scene. Students have until Feb. 15 to sign up.
Consider Washington University for your group’s summer conference
The Summer Programs and Conference Services office invites faculty and staff members to consider Washington University in St. Louis’ Danforth Campus as a site for their organizations’ summer conferences.
Nominations open for Gephardt Institute’s Civic Scholars Program
Nominations are now open for the Gephardt Institute for Public Service’s Civic Scholars Program. The program now consists of both a classic and a study abroad cohort. Faculty, staff and administrators can nominate sophomores for either group here. The nomination deadline is Dec. 2.
Religion & Politics wins reporting award
Religion & Politics, the online news journal of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, won the Gerald A. Renner Enterprise Religion Report of the Year Award at the Religion Newswriters Association’s annual awards ceremony in Austin, Texas.
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