Students and faculty have come out to oppose the decision of the Olin Business School to terminate the contract of Tzachi Zach, assistant professor of accounting.
“I think it would be very difficult for anyone to say that we are better off as a school without Professor Zach here,” Mark Soczek, lecturer of accounting and the director of the center for experiential learning in the business school, said.
Amid protests from his students, Tzachi Zach, assistant professor of accounting in the Olin Business School, will be leaving Washington University after being denied the chance to pursue a tenured position.
Zach, last year’s winner of the Reid Teaching Award, has gained high praise as both an accessible and diligent teacher.
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine recently completed the first study of a gene that is unique to humans and the primate family and that may have ties to cancer. The two-year project confirmed past evidence that a protein within the gene TBC1D3 was oncogenic, or capable of producing tumors, and could be a cancer-producing agent.
Teams of students interested in ending poverty will construct cardboard houses Saturday afternoon to generate awareness and to emphasize affordable housing for low-income families in Washington University’s first annual “Wash. U. Build Challenge.” Student leaders from the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity, along with representatives from the “One” campaign, a global antipoverty non-profit, and “What’s Up” magazine, a local publication aimed at ending poverty, will sponsor the event, beginning at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow.
A bill in the Missouri General Assembly that would allow aspiring teachers to more easily attain teaching credentials has sparked questions about whether such a measure would worsen the quality of education in the state.
Citing budget constraints, Washington University may take an applicant’s ability to pay for college into account when making its final admission decision despite an increasing number of colleges and universities adopting a need-blind policy.
The relevance of an applicant’s financial situation becomes important in the later stages of the admissions decision.
Junior Margaret Burke lights a candle as a part of the Confession Marathon Tuesday afternoon. The Marathon, hosted by the Catholic Student Center, featured eight priests from all over the St. Louis area and lasted from 2 p.m. until midnight.
As the world’s energy supply shrinks, a vanishing byproduct of the oil and gas industry with several uses may emerge as a long-term environmental and economic issue.
The United States’ cheap supply of helium, from its rich natural gas wells, will run out within the next few decades, according to Lee Sobotka, professor of chemistry.
Third-year law students Samir Kaushik (left) and Andrew Nash (right) lift the trophy after winning the D.M. Harish Memorial International Law Moot Court Competition in Mumbai, India. The competition featured 26 teams from all around the world and was judged by members of the Bombay High Court.
As a junior in high school in St. Louis, John Coveyou was in search of direction and craving adventure, so he joined the army.
“I didn’t think I had much of a purpose in life at the time,” said Coveyou.
In the six years since his decision, Coveyou has risen to the rank of sergeant, served in Virginia, Louisiana and Guatemala and is now a junior biology major at Washington University.
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