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Winning ways

Womens volleyball win NCAA Division III championship in 1989

The passing of Title IX in 1972 set the stage for the growth of women’s athletics across the country. Today, Washington University female student-athletes compete in 10 intercollegiate sports. And they hold 19 of WashU’s 22 NCAA Division III national championships, with the string of championships starting in 1989.

Diversity & Inclusion

Leading with diversity

Pat Schoen a stalwart supporter of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management

One proud chapter of Washington University’s history is the founding of The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. Since 1966, the consortium has been driving diversity in business education and corporate leadership across the country.

Diversity & Inclusion

Shaping a more equal society

Consortium Fellow Candace Armour, BSME ’14, MBA ’14, founder of Epic Fan Girl

Alumni of The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management do well by doing good.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Consortium: Sterling Schoen’s ‘Baby’

Sterling Schoen (2nd from right) was the founder of The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management at Washington University in 1966. He founded the consortium for the mission of launching African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans into business careers. (Washington University Archives)

Washington University management professor “stuck his neck out” to establish what has become the oldest and biggest business education diversity organization.

History & Education

Tracing a personal history of the Holocaust

After years of reluctance — and with the help of his journalist daughter, alumna Debbie Bornstein Holinstat — Michael Bornstein shares his remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz in “Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz.”

Diversity & Inclusion

The history of black studies with Gerald Early

Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the Department of English and professor in the African and African American Studies Department, in his office. Photo by James Byard

Professor Gerald Early recently oversaw African and African-American Studies’ transition from program to full-fledged department at WashU. Here, he talks about the student activism that kick-started black studies programs around the country.

Medicine & Health

Despite odds, fish species that bypasses sexual reproduction is thriving

An international team of scientists, led by McDonnell Genome Institute at the School of Medicine, has sequenced the genome of the Amazon molly, a fish that reproduces asexually. The researchers expected that the asexual organism would be at a genetic disadvantage, but the Amazon molly is thriving.

Campus & Community

The View From Here 2.12.18

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Getting to know Meg Jay

Clinical psychologist and author Meg Jay will be the keynote speaker for Washington University’s fourth annual Day of Discovery & Dialogue. Jay’s talk, “The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience,” will take place Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Medical Campus. Registration is strongly encouraged.

Students can take part in Monster Challenge

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the novel “Frankenstein,” the university is hosting a student competition. The prompt for the challenge is “The New Frankenstein,” and students can enter written or visual works. The submission deadline is Oct. 15, and winners will receive up to a $1,000 prize.