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"Preemptive love unmakes violence. Preemptive love actually remakes the world."
~ Jeremy Courtney, one of the founders of the Preemptive Love Coalition, in his Assembly Series talk in Simon Hall on September 19
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KUDOS:
The John M. Olin School of Business
has been selected as the inaugural winner of the MBA Roundtable Innovator Award for its Critical Thinking@Olin initiative, designed to develop critical thinking skills in MBA students. The MBA Roundtable Innovator Award was created to recognize and promote innovative initiatives in MBA education and to acknowledge the institutions that are driving change in the field. The MBA Roundtable is a nonprofit organization that facilitates the exchange of information and resources on MBA curricular innovation. |
Robert Kuehn,
associate dean for clinical education and professor of law, has been awarded the 2012 William Pincus Award for Outstanding Service and Commitment to Clinical Legal Education by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The Pincus Award is the AALS’s highest award bestowed in the area of clinical legal education.
Washington University’s Alpha Iota Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity
was presented with the John Reily Knox Chapter Excellence Award during the General Fraternity’s National Convention in Seattle this past July. The Knox Award, the highest honor a chapter can receive from the General Fraternity, is given to chapters that best exemplify the fraternity’s dedication to cultivation of the intellect, leadership development and self-governance, commitment to community, member education, responsible personal conduct, chapter advisory, member recruitment, communication and lifelong fraternal brotherhood. The fraternity also won the Francis H. Sisson Award for chapter excellence and the Virginia Tech Award, which recognizes a high average chapter GPA.
The women’s cross country team
raced to the program’s first-ever national title at the 2011 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championship held November 19 at Lake Breeze Golf Club in Winneconne, Wisconsin. After finishing as runner-up in 2010, the WUSTL women had all five of its point-scorers place in the top 40 individually to score 70 points to win the 2011 championship over 2010 national champion Middlebury College, which scored 111 points. The men’s team also posted its highest finish in school history, placing third.
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University News
Lead gifts totaling $25 million by two of Washington University’s most dedicated benefactors will support the John M. Olin School of Business and its plans for two new facilities for graduate education. The gifts — $15 million from Charles F. and Joanne Knight and $10 million from George and Carol Bauer through the Bauer Foundation — will provide the capital foundation for Olin’s second century of top-ranked undergraduate and graduate business programs, which have grown steadily since the establishment of the school in 1917. ... more
Washington University’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, a unit of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been ranked 4th in the nation, by DesignIntelligence, which publishes an annual guide, America's Best Architecture and Design Schools. The 13th annual report polled leaders from 277 architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design and interior design firms about which programs have, over the last five years, best prepared students for professional practice. ... more
Last January two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev’s office at Washington University to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 near Conception Junction (population 202) in northwest Missouri. Korotev, research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and an expert in lunar meteorites, identified the stone as a piece of an asteroid. His lab also analyzed crystals within the rock to help identify its body of origin, eventually referring the meteorite hunters to UCLA for analysis of the metal in which the crystals are embedded. ... more
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Research
Hanging out with friends after school and on the weekends is a vital part of a teen’s social life. But for adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), social activity outside of school is a rarity, finds a new study by Paul Shattuck, Ph.D., autism expert and assistant professor at the Brown School. “We looked at data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2, a group of more than 11,000 adolescents enrolled in special education,” he says. “Out of this group, teens with an ASD were significantly more likely never to see friends out of school (43.3 percent), never to get called by friends (54.4 percent), and never to be invited to social activities (50.4 percent) when compared with adolescents from all the other groups.” ... more
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have shown that taking a probiotic before radiation therapy can protect the intestine from damage — at least in mice. The new study suggests that taking a probiotic also may help cancer patients avoid intestinal injury, a common problem in those receiving radiation therapy for abdominal cancers. The research is published online in the journal Gut. ... more
Fannie Mae, the biggest source of money for United States home loans, said last week it will need another $7.8 billion in federal aid following a third-quarter loss of more than $5 billion. As long as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are receiving subsidies, say banking experts at Washington University, there exists potential for another economic meltdown. ... more
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Features
Bears football players Zach Lonneman (center) and Jonathan Paramore (left) talk with international student Yang Liu after a session on American football in Stix International House.
PHOTO: Sid Hastings
When the St. Louis Cardinals won the 2011 World Series in October, the entire city rejoiced; for some, the win bordered on a near-religious experience. However, for many international students at Washington University in St. Louis – who didn’t grow up playing baseball – the series, and the hoopla surrounding it, was confusing. That’s one reason why the Office of International Students & Scholars recently put together a sports program – this one on American football – to help those students better acclimate to their home away from home. ... more
With Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on the way out of power, Italian debt has risen to record levels with few solutions in sight. An economist at Washington University in St. Louis who was born and raised in Italy warns that the Italian troubles may foreshadow what’s at stake for the United States as well, no matter how much more reliable its public debt may appear today. "Berlusconi's announcement contains an important lesson for the U.S.,” says Michele Boldrin, Ph.D., the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences. ... more
“It seemed like it was too good to be true when I first found out about it," says former marine staff sergeant Terry D. Roberts when he recalls learning about the Yellow Ribbon Program for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, thanks to the tuition scholarship available through Yellow Ribbon, Roberts has an MBA degree from one of the top business schools in the country and is working as promotions manager at MidwayUSA. ... more
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