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Business & Entrepreneurship

Study reveals regulatory spending and staffing at all-time high

Homeland security and other regulatory agencies are creating jobs and a record-breaking budget according to a new study from the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis and the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.  A Decade of Growth in the Regulators’ Budget: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 details the rise in regulatory spending and who gets the lion’s share of this year’s $59 billion federal regulatory budget.

MEDIA ADVISORY: WUSTL Commencement traffic

Washington University in St. Louis would like to alert audiences that traffic around the university will be very heavy the morning of Friday, May 21, due to the university’s annual Commencement ceremony.
Medicine

Easily blocked signaling protein may help scientists stop parasites

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a parasite protein that has all the makings of a microbial glass jaw: it’s essential, it’s vulnerable and humans have nothing like it, meaning scientists can take pharmacological swings at it with minimal fear of collateral damage.

Commencement 2010: A treasured past, a sparkling future

For students of the Class of 2010, one journey ends, and another begins. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will confer degrees at the 149th Commencement ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 21, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

Cutz will urge classmates to follow their passions

Few student leaders at Washington University have done more to promote issues of diversity awareness on campus than Fernando Cutz, president of the senior class and this year’s student Commencement speaker.

John Witty: 2010 Outstanding Graduate in Art

John Witty, the Record‘s 2010 Outstanding Graduate in Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has studied the Renaissance and could be called a bit of a Renaissance man. He’ll earn a bachelor of fine arts in printmaking from the Sam Fox School with majors in art history and German, both in Arts & Sciences.

A night of celebration

Students kicked off Commencement Week May 17 with an evening of celebration in downtown St. Louis. More than 1,200 graduating seniors gathered for the Chancellor’s Dinner and Senior Gala.
Humanities & Society

World Cup fever

Much of the world’s population is watching the FIFA World Cup, which began June 11 in South Africa. A majority of those fans will be outside the United States however, where soccer has never been able to gain the popular foothold it enjoys in many of the world’s nations. Several reasons exist for this phenomenon, says Stephan Schindler, PhD, professor and chair of Germanic languages and literatures in Arts & Sciences, who has taught courses on the global culture of soccer.