Academics
MBA program ranked 2nd in career placement, despite the recession
Despite the tough economic times facing the country, 92 percent of graduates from Olin Business School’s MBA program have managed to find jobs while their peers at other MBA programs have struggled.
This year, BusinessWeek Magazine ranked the MBA program at Olin as second in the country for career placement within three months of graduation, behind only Yale University’s School of Management.
ETS offers personality test for graduate admissions
Educational Testing Service, the company that administers the Graduate Record Exam, is offering a new personality index tool for graduate applications this fall for a fee of $20 per report, but most schools are waiting to see if it is worthwhile.
Edward Nussbaum, math professor who escaped Holocaust, passes away
Former Washington University Professor of Mathematics A. Edward Nussbaum died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 31. He was 84 years old. Nussbaum taught at the University for 37 years and retired in 1995.
Brown fat cells provide hope for obesity research
National researchers in cell biology have identified proteins that turn normal skin cells into brown fat cells, which use energy to generate heat.
Professor finalist for National Book Award
Carl Phillips, an English and African-American studies professor at Washington University, has been selected as a finalist for the National Book Award for his work, “Speak Low,” published in 2009. He has received two prior nominations for the award and progressed to the level of finalist, for “From the Devotions” and “The Rest of Love: Poems,” for which Phillips also won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry.
Record numbers at undergraduate research symposium
Across the hall from an analysis of pedophilic overtones in haute couture, a group of students demonstrated a robot they built that follows moving sounds. Just outside, art students sold glass earrings alongside multicolored paintings of dead fish on plywood. This year’s fall Undergraduate Research Symposium saw a record number of participants and, according to the program coordinator, an unusually diverse variety of topics.
Chemical in red wine may be the key to longevity, study finds
Only a decade ago, the thought of taking a pill to enhance longevity would have been equivalent for many to the idea of time travel, but now researchers at the School of Medicine are studying the active component of a timeless drink that may hold such a promise.
Public health program expands
Schools, departments and faculty spanning Washignton University are uniting to create a cohesive public health program, bringing master’s degrees in the business school, medical school and the Brown School of Social Work, as well as an undergraduate minor, under the coordinating influence of the newly formed Institute of Public Health.
The University’s initiative to expand public [...]
SU creating Web site for posting class syllabi
Student Union Senators Joseph Marcus and Jake Novick have invented SyllabiCentral, a Web site that gathers syllabi from different University courses in one central location in order to give students a better sense of what classes offer.
Government increases science research funding for WU through stimulus
Science researchers at the University say they are enjoying a spike in federal funding, thanks in large part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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