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The Danforth Center’s director goes into moral combat

Marie Griffith, director, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

R. Marie Griffith’s new book analyzes how, and why, “sex divided American Christians and fractured American politics.”

Law

An appreciation of the rule of law

When she was 10, Shirley Padmore Mensah survived a coup in her native Liberia. Due to that and encouragement from her father, Mensah studied at Washington University’s School of Law eventually becoming a judge in Missouri with a deep appreciation of the rule of law.

St. Louis Region

Building a better neighborhood

Esther Shin in the Urban Strategies, Inc. offices

Esther Shin, AB ’94, MSW ’98, president of Urban Strategies, Inc., is striving to revitalize St. Louis’ Near North Side with help from community partners and a $29.5 million federal grant.

Politics

As city treasurer for Chicago, alumnus combines business and politics

As a student, Kurt Summers, BSBA ’00, was interested in business and public service. Throughout his career he has married those two interests. He did so most recently in 2014, when he became the treasurer for the City of Chicago.

Medicine

Alleviating human suffering

Longtime supporters of the medical school, Debra and George Couch are focused now on helping advance discoveries through precision medicine.

Workplace

Six tips: Networking for professional success

Illustration of people connected by lines to one another

Experts across campus offer advice about how to build your professional network and connect better with colleagues

Campus & Community

Quoted: Faculty experts

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Quotes faculty experts provided to various news outlets on a variety of topics including the Zika virus, gay olympians and nepotism in the Trump administration.

It’s time to dismantle TIFs as tool of segregation

We have gotten skilled in this region at dropping the term “racial equity” when politically expedient. It is time to back that language up with some action on tax incentives. The growing number of St. Louisans who care about racial equity can tell the difference between empty rhetoric and tangible results.

WashU spotlight: Judy Zhijun Mu

Judy Zhijun Mu, senior lecturer in Chinese and resident director for Washington University in Shanghai, will be heading to China again this fall to teach and oversee the day-to-day operations of Washington University’s Global Med Prep Scholars Program. The program offers pre-med undergraduates a chance to study abroad in Shanghai and shadow both doctors who […]

Operations & Strategy

Full speed ahead: Qing Wu, EMBA ’11

Already in the No. 2 spot in the insurance broker company AON-COFCO, Qing “Clare” Wu had achieved what most people dream of. Still, she didn’t want to miss an opportunity to improve her business skills, so she enrolled in Washington University and Fudan University’s joint executive MBA program. While there, she inspired her classmates to take up running, and after graduation gained the top spot at AON.