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Awards recognized graduates who have demonstrated exceptional creativity, innovation, leadership and vision through their contributions to both the school and the practice of architecture.

U.S. News has ranked 18 of the University’s graduate and professional programs in the top 10 of their respective fields, and 46 graduate and undergraduate programs in their top 25.

A team of geologists makes a revealing discovery: a well-preserved fossil of a crab within inches of a tail vertebra from a massive plant-eating dinosaur.

Charles M. Hohenberg, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, along with his mother, Alice, made the gift to the University in memory of his father.

They are: Madeleine K. Albright, Herman N. Eisen, Douglass C. North, Ozzie Smith, William P. Stiritz and Blanche M. Touhill.

Area mayors, city representatives and University administrators celebrate the groundbreaking of the MetroLink station at West Campus.

Senior Zachary Asher receives his cap and gown from Mary McGinley at the recent “Commencement Center.”

The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Washington University School of Law will present a conference on “Biodiversity, Biotechnology, & the Protection of Traditional Knowledge,” April 4-6 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Kennedy Cuomo’s work in the field of human rights began in 1981, when she initiated an investigation into alleged abuse of El Salvador refugees by U.S. immigration officials. Since then, she has been devoted to the promotion and protection of basic rights, covering such legal and social justice issues as freedom of expression, child labor, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, ethnic violence and women’s rights. In the past twenty years, Kennedy Cuomo has led more than three dozen human rights delegations to more than 20 countries

Baxter is the author of three novels, most recently The Feast of Love (Pantheon, 2000); and four collections of short fiction, including A Relative Stranger (Viking Penguin, 1991) and Believers (Vintage, 1998). He has published a book of essays on the craft of fiction, Burning Down the House (Graywolf, 1997), as well as three collections of poetry, and also has edited three anthologies of fiction and essays.