Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Top Stories

Three students arrived on campus in fall 2013 with a desire to help the environment. This month, Nick Annin, Elise Fabbro and Nicola Salzman graduate and are poised to fight the globe’s most pressing problem with a powerful tool: the free market.

Bolden named director of parking and transportation

Gwendolyn Bolden has been appointed director of Parking & Transportation, announced Dedric Carter, vice chancellor for operations and technology management. Bolden has worked at universities and municipalities across the nation.

Women’s Society presents Switzer awards, Danforth scholarships

The Women’s Society of Washington University announced the winners of the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarship during its annual membership meeting recently.

Events

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, May 11

School of Medicine Farmers’ Market

1 p.m. Thursday, May 11

Breast cancer research keynote

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, May 12

‘Slow Professor’ workshop

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Campus Announcements

Share Our Stuff drive underway

Attention students: As you move out of your residence hall or apartment, consider donating unwanted appliances, clothing or even packaged food to those in need (and keep such items out of landfills).

Washington People

Lizzy Crist

Senior Lizzy Crist, goalkeeper for the national champion women’s soccer team, will take numerous awards and honors, along with a tremendous work ethic, to her next stop in life: pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering.

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WashU in the News

Kushners use EB-5 visa program to finance their developments

CBS Evening News

The specter of Catholic identity in secular France

The Atlantic

At 2017 commencement speeches, it’s a no-Trump zone

USA Today

Artists want you to notice when a building is demolished in St. Louis

St. Louis Public Radio

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Campus Voices

‘Driving free-market consumerism in the medical marketplace’

Robert Salter, who teaches health-care management in University College in Arts & Sciences, writes in an op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about whether free-market concepts can work in selecting health plans as they do with retail purchases.

Notables

Lerone Martin photo Lerone Martin, assistant professor of religion and politics, has been named one of just 10 2017 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholars by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

The Record