Champions!

For Washington University's national champion women's basketball team, winning one is lots of fun, but winning again is twice as nice. But the Bears didn't just win their second consecutive NCAA Division III national championship last weekend in Danbury, Conn. -- they won all 30 games in 1998-99 to become just the third team in Division III women's history and just the 19th team ever in any NCAA division, men's or women's, to finish the season unbeaten.

The team defeated the University of Scranton (Pa. ), 74-65, in the national semifinals and knocked off the College of St. Benedict (Minn. ) by the same 74-65 score in the championship game to claim the second national basketball championship in school history and the school's ninth national crown in the last 11 years.

"Wow," said Bears head coach Nancy Fahey.

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Danforth scholars

One student has provided more than 1,000 hours of emergency medical assistance to fellow students. Another has enlightened fourth-graders about ecology. A third helped develop and implement Minnesota's first statewide citizenship program for Latinos.

These tip-of-the-iceberg illustrations, varied in style but kindred in substance, depict a blending of rigorous academic pursuit with a life of leadership and service. And that union is the essence of an extraordinary group of 14 Washington University students -- the first cohort of Danforth Scholars.

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MBA students go global with work in China, Brazil

After years of working abroad, from Shanghai to Sao Paulo, Brazil, William P. Coon, senior lecturer in international business at the John M. Olin School of Business, knows the best way to teach students the ins and outs of foreign markets: Take them there and put them to work.

For the second consecutive year, master of business administration students in Coon's "Global Management Studies" class have traveled abroad to conduct two-week research projects for companies with foreign interests.

"The best way for students to learn how to do business abroad is for them actually to do business abroad," said Coon.

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