Mark Weinrich, formerly planned giving officer in Special Development Programs, has been promoted to director of planned giving. He succeeds Paul Schoon, who is retiring from that position after 18 years.
ShangeNtozake Shange, author of the revolutionary “choreopoem” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, will deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Thurs., April 8th in Graham Chapel.
An unpleasant postoperative procedure for thyroid cancer patients who have had their thyroid glands surgically removed may be unnecessary for most patients, according to Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Ben Malcolmson, sports editor of The Daily Trojan at the University of Southern California, explores the athletic and academic success of Washington University, which has won 12 Division III national championships in the last 15 years, despite the innate differences within the realms of Division I and Division III athletics programs.
The late 1960s were a time of change and personal reflection. Neil H. White was a student at the State University of New York at Albany, pondering his own future and considering three professions: chemical engineer, ski bum or doctor. Although he was a chemistry and physics major, White also was president of the Ski […]
The findings, led by Philip E. Cryer and William J. Powers, were recently published in the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Washington University in St. Louis will launch its 2004 Olin Cup Entrepreneurship Competition with kickoff events on April 1 and April 13 on the Washington University Hilltop and Medical campuses. The Olin Cup Kickoff events are free and open to the public. Washington University’s Skandalaris Entrepreneurship Program sponsors the Olin Cup Competition, that later this year will award a total of $70,000 in seed investment to the winners. Throughout the year, the Competition will hold over 50 workshops and other events, to promote learning, collaboration, and team formation. The events contribute to the goal of the Competition, to support the creation of new ventures.
When many students left to serve the government as soldiers, sailors and nurses during World War II, several campus activities were curtailed, particularly student participation in Greek life and athletics. In 1943, Eliot Review discontinued publication; Thurtene Carnival and Spring Formals were not held; and the Student Senate was disbanded. After the war, Chancellor Arthur […]
The challenge gift will further St. Louis’ role as home to a nationally recognized, robust cancer research and treatment program.
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