The university’s Hope Center for Neurological Disorders collaborated with Michael Eastman, a contemporary photographic artist, for Where Art Meets Science.
Richard Mahoney’s life mirrors a piece of powerful advice his father bestowed on him while he was growing up in Springfield, Mass. Mahoney recalls: “He told me, ‘Richard, the first third of your life — learn. The second third — earn, and the last third you return.’”
Outside of Miami, Greater Boston boasts one of the largest Haitian-American populations in the United States. When local community leaders told Boston attorney Vikas S. Dhar, AB ’99, of Haiti’s sexual violence and trafficking issues, his law firm took action.
For Jenny Murphy, BFA ’09, developing an entry for a sculpture competition — a rite of passage for students at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — helped define her future as an entrepreneur and community arts leader.
Making history interesting to teenagers is a daily challenge for Eric Cochran, AB ’98, chair of the social studies department at Lindbergh High School in St. Louis County.
Although now an Emmy- and Peabody-winner, sports television producer Michael Hughes, BSBA ’01, got his start on a much smaller stage. While a student at Washington University, he hosted and filmed bits for What’s Up, WashU?, a low-budget show for on-campus station WUTV. Initially recruited by a fellow member of the football team because he was “loud […]
The economic model of law schools is broken, says Brian Z. Tamanaha, JD, JSD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the new book, Failing Law Schools, published by the University of Chicago Press. “The best example to demonstrate this is that in 2010, the average debt of law students was $100,000 and the median salary was $63,000 — so a person who obtains the median salary cannot make the monthly payments on the average debt,” he says. “This involves thousands of law students. For the majority of law students, the cost of obtaining a law degree and the economic return on a law degree are out of whack.”
