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Study: Left to devices, you can learn to save money

Three researchers, including Tarek Ghani, assistant professor of strategy at Olin Business School at Washington University St. Louis, designed a mobile money-based savings wallet that could “nudge” people into saving.

Business & Entrepreneurship

Gender parity in tech transfer

The tech transfer field has a long way to go before reaching gender parity. A new study from the Office of Technology Management at Washington University in St. Louis suggests a way to speed up the process.

Kovacs receives honorary degree from Lund University

Sandor Kovacs, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, recently received an honorary degree from Lund University in Sweden.

Humanities & Society

WashU Expert: SCOTUS strikes down clothing ban over ‘imprecise’ wording

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 14 struck down a ban on clothing with political messages being worn inside polling places. Greg Magarian, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on free speech and the law of politics, says the court’s decision in the case was very narrow.

Shakespeare and Olin? How better to integrate business and the arts

Shakespeare and business. Yoking together these two words seems almost surreal. Yet on April 15, Washington University’s Olin Business School — under the aegis of its dean, Mark P. Taylor — did something which would be unimaginable anywhere else in the United States.

Who Knew WashU 6.13.18

Question: Many WashU students and alumni have started their own businesses. What did young alum Andrew Glantz help create while still a student here?

Campus & Community

Tamanaha installed as Lehmann University Professor

Brian Z. Tamanaha has been named the John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He was installed Feb. 21 at a ceremony in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Campus & Facilities

Inside a transformed Olin Library

The transformed Olin Library at the heart of the Danforth Campus offers new, engaging spaces for the discovery, collaboration and instruction of the future.

Campus & Facilities

A closer look at the university’s Declaration of Independence

Thanks to the family of Eric and Evelyn Newman, the John M. Olin Library at Washington University now has one of the few surviving broadsides of the Declaration of Independence. (James Byard/Washington University)

Students can enjoy a cup of coffee at the expanded Whispers Café and then marvel at a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence near the Jack E. and Debbie T. Thomas Gallery on Level 1.

Literature

Exceptional selections

University Libraries hold some 1,000 collections in the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections. On display on Level A of the Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration is Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu’s “Atlas Maior…” (Amsterdam, 1665) (James Byard/Washington University)

The transformation of the John M. Olin Library provides a new home for the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections. With more than 1,000 collections, the department is among academia’s largest and most diverse.