BollingerThe respondent in the U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action cases Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger and a member of the American Society on International Law’s executive counsel are part of the fall lineup for the School of Law’s sixth annual Public Interest Speaker Series. This popular series, titled “Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers,” was initiated to highlight the excellence of the law school’s Clinical Education Program; to expose students to public interest advocates and practitioners; to illuminate the pro bono and public interest responsibility of law students and lawyers; and to engage the wider University community in an interdisciplinary discussion about social justice. All of the fall lectures are held in Anheuser-Busch Hall unless otherwise noted, and are free and open to the public.
The photo galleries indexed below offer a selection of high-resolution stock images of campus scenes, including key buildings, architectural details and student life. Created by photographers in the Photo Services division of Public Affairs, these images are provided free to media representatives for purposes of news coverage. For detailed guidelines and restrictions on media usage, […]
The photo galleries indexed below offer a selection of high-resolution stock images of campus scenes, including key buildings, architectural details and student life. Created by photographers in the Photo Services division of Public Affairs, these images are provided free to media representatives for purposes of news coverage. For detailed guidelines and restrictions on media usage, […]
The photo galleries indexed below offer a selection of high-resolution stock images of campus scenes, including key buildings, architectural details and student life. Created by photographers in the Photo Services division of Public Affairs, these images are provided free to media representatives for purposes of news coverage. For detailed guidelines and restrictions on media usage, […]
Built more than a century ago, Brookings Hall is the signature building on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The photo galleries indexed below offer a selection of high-resolution stock images of campus scenes, including key buildings, architectural details and student life. Created by photographers in the Photo Services division of Public […]
The photo galleries indexed below offer a selection of high-resolution stock images of campus scenes, including key buildings, architectural details and student life. Created by photographers in the Photo Services division of Public Affairs, these images are provided free to media representatives for purposes of news coverage. For detailed guidelines and restrictions on media usage, […]
ThakorAnjan V. Thakor, Ph.D., has been named the John E. Simon Professor of Finance at the John M. Olin School of Business, it was announced by Olin Dean Stuart Greenbaum. Thakor joins the Olin School from the University of Michigan, where he served as the Edward J. Frey Professor of Banking and Finance from 1996 to 2003 and as the chairman of the finance department from 2000 to 2003.
The human brainThe failing memories of older adults, including their tendency to remember things that never happened, are not an inevitable consequence of aging, according to Washington University research presented Aug. 8 at the American Psychological Association meeting in Toronto. The study offers evidence that false memories and other cognitive declines often associated with normal aging can be more directly linked to measurable declines in executive control functions in frontal brain lobes.
Harriet Hosmer, Portrait of Wayman Crow, Sr., 1866, Carrara marbleSince its founding in 1853, Washington University in St. Louis has grown from a small private school to one of the nation’s premiere research universities. Influence 150: 150 Years of Shaping a City, a Nation, the World, which opens Sept. 5 at the Gallery of Art, celebrates that journey with hundreds of archival photographs, drawings, posters, letters, scrapbooks and other materials chronicling key events, people and discoveries in the life of the university.
*Pu’uhonua O Honaunau, 2002*Chicago photographer Alan Cohen has traveled the world tracing overlapping waves of stone, earth, asphalt, brick and concrete — the geologic and manmade ground — that demark physical and perceptual “sites” such as national borders, the path of the equator and places of historic violence. This fall, the Gallery of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will survey Cohen’s work since the mid-1990s as part of its Contemporary Projects Series.