Seniors took advantage of their last year at Washington University to hold special events and bond as a class.
The senior class trip to Madison, Wis. was the first big event of the school year to kick off the last semesters at Washington University. Senior Class Council organized the trip, and they provided transportation, booked hotels, and provided guidebooks.
“Fearless” is the word to describe Alvaro Briones, a Nicaraguan immigrant who now works as a research patient coordinator at the Washington University School of Medicine.
But that wasn’t his first job in America.
After graduating from medical school at a university in Nicaragua, a job with Top Care, Inc., the University’s lawn care service, brought him to the U.S. in 2005.
If you’ve ever wondered who created Graffiti, the wildly popular Facebook application that allows users to doodle on friends’ walls, look no further than this campus. His name is Ted Suzman, and he’s a junior right here at Washington University.
Suzman, who justifiably wants to switch his major from biomedical engineering to computer science, works together with an entrepreneurial team, which includes his brother Mark and friend Tim.
Tim Russert’s speech for the 146th Commencement at Washington University, is entitled “A View From Washington.” This title is certainly fitting, considering that Russert serves as senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News.
In addition, this year’s commencement speaker is the managing editor and moderator of Meet the Press (the longest-running show in television history), the anchor of The Tim Russert Show (a weekly interview program on CNBC), a political analyst for NBC Nightly News and Today and a contributing anchor for MSNBC.
Pulse for April 27-29.
Have you awoken to your land phone ringing loudly in the morning, only to pick it up sleepily and hear a credit solicitor on the other end?
You are certainly not alone. More than ever, credit card companies are tapping the lucrative market of college students.
Bon App‚tit Management Company, the food service used by many universities and corporations including Washington University, Nordstrom, Inc. and Target, is introducing a new low-carbon diet. With this new initiative, Bon App‚tit aims to reduce carbon emissions and, in turn, lessen the greenhouse effect.
The Educational Testing Services (ETS) suddenly cancelled planned test changes to the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) last Monday. The changes will be postponed to a later date, which has not yet been determined, according to ETS.
The updated GRE had been scheduled for release this September.
In recent years, several African-American theater companies across the country have suffered financial woes that have forced them to cut staff, cancel productions, or close entirely. A rash of closings and economic hits have swept theaters from the Jomandi Theater in Atlanta to the Freedom Theater in Philadelphia.
Ever hear of a robot that paints? Better yet, one that paints like Jackson Pollack? Topher McFarland, Rahul Bhinge and John Beltz did just that for their senior design projects in the class Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 404P. The result? A robot named Action Jackson that helps to produce work that is reminiscent of the pieces of one of the most famous abstract painters in history.
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