Top-level training

A five-story residential learning center for executive education -- the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center -- will be built on the former Mudd Hall site on the north side of the Hilltop campus for the John M. Olin School of Business.

The facility, named after the chairman and chief executive officer of Emerson Electric Co., will house degree and non-degree programs for mid- through senior-level executives and will serve a growing need for career-long learning.

The structure, to be built directly east of Anheuser-Busch Hall and north of Simon Hall, will enclose more than 120,000 square feet. Groundbreaking will be in early 1999, and the facility should be finished in 2001.

Unique to this part of the Midwest, the structure will include classrooms, group study rooms, dining facilities, several lounges, a distance-learning studio and 65 units providing overnight lodging.

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Linking memory and space

The relationship between architecture and memory will be examined at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Central Regional Conference, to be hosted by the School of Architecture Oct. 2-4.

Assistant Professors Eleni Bastea and Gia Daskalakis (the latter directs the undergraduate program in architecture) are co-chairing the multidisciplinary conference, which is expected to include 65-70 presentations of papers and design projects. Themes range from "public memory" to "art and memory" to "cultural memory." The presentations will examine topics from both international and historical perspectives and include analysis of commemorative architecture, architecture in literature and architecture created in politically or culturally charged settings.

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High praise

The notion of a "field day" often conjures up a frenetic free-for-all where students romp and chaperones stomp trying to keep up with recalcitrant charges running amok in the woods while a guide lovingly describes a creature or habitat to stone-cold ears.

But that's not the way field days are conducted at Tyson Research Center. In fact, Tyson's Field Science Program, beginning another year of outreach in October, was recognized last month, along with the St. Louis Zoo, for exemplary work in outreach, alignment of programs with curriculum, and learning assessment by the St. Louis School District's School Partnership Program (SPP).

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Weekend of home openers brings Bears key victories

One of the busiest weekends of fall sports on the Washington University campus produced several Bear wins and a few notable milestones.

The volleyball team improved to 8-0 on the season with a sweep of its WU Classic in the Field House.

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