A recent study conducted by the College Board recognized one of Washington University’s Chinese courses as among the best in foreign language and literature.
The class, third-level Modern Chinese I, is divided into multiple sections, taught by Fengtao Wu, senior lecturer in Chinese, and Ke Nie, visiting lecturer in Chinese.
Thanks to a recent donation, Washington University’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies will be sponsoring a summer internship program for University students.
“The compensation package is $2,500 dollars over 10 weeks, but we include room and board here on campus,” said Lawrence Luscri, the student services coordinator for the Skandalaris Center.
Students taking Hindi will be able to declare it as a minor beginning next fall. The Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee approved the Hindi minor last Monday.
For Mohammad Warsi, lecturer in South Asian languages, who initiated the conception of the Hindi minor, the approval marks an expansion of the study of foreign language and literature at Washington University.
Fighting poverty and spreading democracy went hand in hand, as author and social activist Francis Moore Lappé spoke Tuesday as part of Washington University’s Assembly Series.
At the event, Lappé spoke about her newest book, “Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad.”
The Washington University Genome Sequencing Center issued a public response on its Web site yesterday in response to controversial comments on race and intelligence made by James Watson, the biologist who discovered the structure of DNA along with Francis Crick.
The residential college armies are coming in November.
GoCrossCampus, an Internet game that allows students to participate in an ongoing battle over Washington University’s campus, will be online for South 40 students in the coming weeks.
Each team will represent one of the South 40’s residential colleges competing for dominance in the massively multiplayer social gaming platform.
Today, rows of tombstones will stand on the Danforth campus as part of a display by the Washington University Peace Coalition, in an effort to raise awareness over the cost of the on-going war in Iraq.
Although the display has been erected in previous years, this is the first year in which the display will be present at other Saint Louis universities, including the University of Missouri at Saint Louis (UMSL), Saint Louis University (SLU) and the nearby Fontbonne University.
A contortionist, a 14-year-old, a one-armed man and other jugglers will be performing on campus this Saturday for the St. Louis Juggling Festival, or Jugglefest.
Washington University’s National Prestigious Society of Collegiate Jugglers (NPSCJ) will be hosting the event for the first time after the St. Louis Juggling Club’s relocation from the city.
The Center for Advanced Learning at Washington University, also known as Cornerstone, recently received a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will go toward research that will aid disability resources in helping University students participate in the Peer-Led Team Learning program (PLTL).
Today marks the third day of Peace Week, a five-day, 24-hour anti-Iraqi war demonstration that is taking place outside the office of Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D-Mo.) office on the Delmar Loop.
On Thursday, a number of Washington University students from the Washington University Peace & Justice Coalition will be participating in the 24-hour presence.
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