Cox basks in opportunities provided by WUSTL
He double-majored, double-minored, maintained a 3.95 GPA and worked several part-time jobs to make ends meet.
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Gallery of graduates
From running with the bulls in Spain to patenting impressive technology, read about the feats of some of the University’s graduates.
Spinal cord injury patient makes great strides
courtesy photoOscar Segovia works with physical therapist Cassandra Pate at the Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis.After Oscar Segovia was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle home from work, he was determined to walk again.
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In 1963, the University obtained land classified as surplus property from the federal government and turned it into what is now the Tyson Research Center, a 2,000-acre field station near the Meramec River, just outside the St. Louis metropolitan area. In 1974, a sizable portion of Tyson was included in the Beaumont-Tyson Quarry District, a […]
MEDIA ADVISORY: Washington University’s 143rd Commencement is this Friday
Washington University’s 143rd Commencement is at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 21, 2004, in Brookings Quadrangle on campus. The university will bestow degrees on 2,589 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on six individuals. Thomas L. Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, best-selling author and foreign-affairs columnist for The New York Times, will deliver the Commencement address, titled “Imagination.”
Obituary: Sara L. Johnson, associate dean of Arts & Sciences, 47
Sara L. Johnson, associate dean and academic coordinator in the College of Arts & Sciences, died Monday, May 17, 2004 of metastatic neuroendocrine cancer. She was 47.
New Virgil Professorship in business established by friends
In honor of a very special couple, $1.5 million has been raised by friends and colleagues to establish the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professorship in Accounting and Management in Washington University’s John M. Olin School of Business. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the gift, which includes $300,000 from the University’s Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge. Mahendra Gupta, Ph.D., professor of accounting in the John M. Olin School of Business, will be appointed as the first holder in a ceremony planned for later this year.
Commencement 2004 to feature more than a dozen distinguished speakers
Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoCommencement 2004 at Washington University in St. Louis will feature more than a dozen distinguished speakers, both at the All-University Ceremony (May 21) and at individual school diploma and recognition ceremonies (May 19-21).
Four elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Carl Frieden, Jeffrey I. Gordon, John F. McDonnell and Carl Phillips can now stand proudly beside Ben Franklin, George Washington, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. Those four from Washington University in St. Louis have joined those four from history as being elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Trustees name Kemper as new chairman; McDonnell and Brauer as vice chairmen
KemperThe Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis met Friday, May 14, at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center and elected David W. Kemper, president and chief executive officer of Commerce Bancshares Inc., as chairman of the board for the 2004-05 fiscal year, according to Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor. The trustees elected John F. McDonnell, retired chairman of the board of McDonnell Douglas Corp., and Stephen F. Brauer, chief executive officer of Hunter Engineering, as vice chairmen of the board.