A group of a two dozen corporate leaders, including
Warren Buffet, is trying to influence American companies to increase the
number of women in positions of senior leadership. The effort, called the 30% Club,
is an expansion of an effort in Great Britain to increase female corporate
board representation there to 30 percent by the end of 2015. But can it work in the United States? Maybe, with more defined objectives, says Olin Business School’s Michelle Duguid, PhD, an expert on women in the workplace.
An undergraduate success story: Jolijt Tamanaha spent her last weeks of junior year at Washington University in St. Louis making a deal to sell a startup she co-founded called Farmplicity — an online marketplace that matches restaurants with local farmers — founded in a course through Olin Business School called The Hatchery.
Richard J. Smith, PhD, dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, presented the school’s Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence to 17 teaching assistants for exemplary performance. Stacy Davis, a fifth-year PhD candidate in Spanish, was among those recognized during an April 24 ceremony.
The Brookings Institution and Washington University in
St. Louis have announced a new fellowship program aimed at boosting
senior-level government employee success. The new Brookings Executive Education Fellowship will help agencies and individuals
develop the thinking and behaviors needed for fostering skilled
government leadership, while doing so at a significantly reduced cost.
Three biomedical engineering seniors at WUSTL are gaining national attention for the robotic prosthetic arm they developed for a 13-year-old St. Louis girl. Built on a 3-D printer, the arm is cheap, functional — and pink.
The Spector Prize, first awarded in 1974, recognizes academic excellence and outstanding undergraduate achievement in research. Students are nominated by their research mentors for outstanding research that has made substantial contributions to a field. This year, the prize has been awarded to Deborah Huang, who plans to
graduate this month with a major in biochemistry and molecular biology
and a minor in public health.
Four students in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis have won important honors and fellowships this spring. They include the Carnegie Junior Fellowship, the Beinecke Scholarship, the Newman Civic Fellows Award and the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Daniel Blash and Denise DeCou, diversity and inclusion leaders at the School of Medicine, are on a mission to create a work environment that includes and nurtures people from all backgrounds. Their assignment is to reach 50 percent of the medical school workforce by June.
Students from Eureka High School prepare their plane for launch during the Boeing Design Challenge at the Washington University Field House April 29. They were among 110 area high school students from six school districts on 26 teams who designed and hand-launched balsa wood gliders in different competitions, learning concepts of physics and engineering. The teams were assisted by engineers from Boeing Co.
Chanelle Hardy, JD, a senior executive with the National Urban League, will be keynote speaker at the For the Sake of All Community Conference that begins at 8 a.m. Friday, May 30, at the Missouri History Museum. At the conference — the culmination of a yearlong, groundbreaking study of African-American health and well-being in the St. Louis region — researchers will issue a final
report along with policy recommendations for the region. The conference is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, and registration is required.
