Arts & Sciences

Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles, will be participating.

Photo by Jennifer Weisbord/WUSTLChancellor Mark. S. Wrighton announces the formation of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at a news conference Oct. 19 in New York.The Academy partners a major American university with top foreign universities and leading multinational corporations.

Malaria, along with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, is one of the three largest global killers of the world’s poorest people.

His new book is titled The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China.

Courtesy photoBrenda Marie OsbeyBrenda Marie Osbey, Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana, will host a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina currently staying in the St. Louis area from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, in The Gargoyle. Osbey, a native of New Orleans, will read from her work and discuss Katrina’s effects on the city. In addition, the event will feature Dixieland music by St. Louis’ Bourbon Street Band, while Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, will speak on “The Death of Jazz and the Birth of New Orleans.”

Audio clips from the McDonnell International Scholars Academy press conference in New York. Internet listening quality clips are followed by broadcast quality clips.

Addressing poverty, famine, infectious diseases, international conflict and other world problems is the mission of a new global education and research initiative announced today by Washington University in St. Louis and a partnership of top foreign universities and multinational corporations. Launched with a $10 million endowment commitment from John F. McDonnell and the JSM Charitable Trust, the McDonnell International Scholars Academy creates a growing worldwide network of scholars, researchers and business and governmental leaders. Designed to nurture future global leaders, the program will provide all-expenses-paid tuition, room, board and travel for exceptional graduate students selected from partner universities around the world. Believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, the program will bring foreign students to the United States to study the sciences, reversing a decline that began after 9/11. The program also will help countries of the world collaborate on critical issues including the environment, medicine and energy and food production and help the United States maintain its place as a world leader in innovation and invention. John C. Danforth, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and three-term member of the U.S. Senate will chair the Academy’s external advisory committee. He joined Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, McDonnell and other program founders in announcing the initiative at a news conference held today in New York.

McdonnellJohn F. McDonnell retired as chairman of the board for McDonnell Douglas Corporation in 1997 after a more than 35-year career at the company. He was elected chairman and chief executive officer in 1988, a position he held until September 1994. From then until his retirement at the time of the merger with Boeing, he was chairman of the board. McDonnell led the company successfully through the early 1990’s when the U.S. defense budget and the aerospace markets were shrinking dramatically. In the face of a rapidly consolidating aerospace industry, he oversaw the merger of McDonnell Douglas with Boeing to create the world’s largest, broadest, and strongest aerospace company.

A collection of quotes on the Academy.