Kouvelis
Panos Kouvelis, a professor of operations and manufacturing management at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, has been named to the new position of senior associate dean and director of executive programs. From St. Louis to Shanghai, Olin offers a wide variety of executive education programs including the Executive MBA degree, topic-focused seminars and custom corporate learning programs. Kouvelis brings a rich background of teaching, research and consulting to this new position which is part of a larger strategic plan for continued growth and innovation in executive education.
The Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Washington University will close, effective June 30, 2010. Many of the programs and work on ethics and human values will transition over the next year to the schools and other parts of the University. The decision comes in the wake of significant shortfalls in […]
More than 1,400 Washington University freshmen will move into the South 40 residence halls on Thursday, Aug. 20. With help from family, friends and upperclassmen, the students will be hauling everything from refrigerators and microwaves to carpets, bicycles and stereo systems into their new homes away from home. Trucks, vans, U-Hauls and station wagons will line the South 40 driveways.
Margaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.
One lane of Kingshighway Boulevard will be closed in each direction between Hospital Plaza and Oakland Avenue between 6:30 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. August 17-21.
A 10 million-square-foot cellular network will be built on the Washington University Medical Center campus this year as part of a new paging system. Sprint and Telecommunications Facilities Corp., the joint School of Medicine- and BJC HealthCare-operated company that supports telecommunications services, will build the network, estimated to be complete in early 2010. More than […]
While purchasing all the necessary back to school supplies in the coming weeks, incoming college students may also want to update their vaccination records. Being vaccinated is a simple way to prevent several controllable infectious illnesses, says an expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
Margaret Bush WilsonMargaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.
One lane of Kingshighway Boulevard will be closed in each direction between Hospital Plaza and Oakland Avenue from 6:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Aug. 27 and 28.
Student Financial Services can help departments locate and hire part-time student workers for the 2009-10 academic year — and, at the same time, help departments stretch their budgets a bit further. During this budget-challenged year, departments hiring eligible federal work-study students will only pay 25 percent of the student’s total earnings. The other 75 percent […]