All-star CEOs lend their perspectives as they help Knight teach M.B.A. class at Olin School
The guest lecturers include Jack Welch, retired chairman and CEO of General Electric, and August Busch III, chairman of Anheuser-Busch Cos.
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Sports
Buffa improves to 5-0; baseball team now 17-4 The baseball team went 2-2 last week to move to 17-4 overall. WUSTL opened with an 11-4 win March 24 against Elmhurst College. Junior Brent Buffa pitched a complete game, allowing eight hits and only three earned runs; he also struck out four to improve to 5-0. […]
Architecture education reinforces importance of sustainable design
Topics for intensive workshops will range from building technologies and sustainable building design to landscape design and urban and regional planning.
Black Enterprise magazine head Graves to give MLK lecture
He joined the magazine in 1988 as the vice president of advertising and marketing and has worked to transform the company into a multimedia conglomerate.
‘Benefits Plan for the Future’ unveiled by human resources
Objectives include addressing the rising costs of insurance, tuition assistance and retirement savings plans; and grandfathering all current benefits-eligible faculty and staff.
Annual American Indian Awareness Week, including powwow, April 3-8
The annual awareness week and powwow allow the University’s American Indian students to share their cultures with the rest of the campus and the St. Louis community.
Campus Watch
The following incidents were reported to University Police March 22-28. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. March 27 4 p.m. — A person […]
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Saturday night fever
Photo by Kevin LowderForrest Rogers-Marcovitz shows off his break-dancing moves at the Bayou Ball, which raised more than $1,500 for Habitat For Humanity’s Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Biological sciences jumps into top 10; School of Medicine also places several areas among the top
For the first time, biological sciences at Washington University has cracked the top 10 of the U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional programs, to be released April 3.
Biological sciences — which includes biology in Arts & Sciences, biomedical sciences in the School of Medicine, and biomedical engineering — jumped five places, from a tie for 14th to a 9th-place tie with Princeton University and the University of California-San Francisco.