2014 Commencement

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Class of 2014

Our 153rd all-university Commencement ceremony took place Friday, May 16, 2014 at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.

2014 Chancellor’s Address

Our mission is to prepare the next generation of leaders, advance human health, inspire innovation and entrepreneurship, and enhance the quality of life. Class of 2014, you are leaders, you are advancing human health, you are innovators and entrepreneurs, and you are enhancing the quality of life. I declare: Mission accomplished! Congratulations to the Class of 2014!

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Watch the full 2014 Commencement Ceremony.

2014 Commencement Address Speaker – Tony La Russa

Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Tony La Russa is considered one of the best managers in baseball history. During his 33-year career as a manager in Major League Baseball, La Russa won three World Series and 2,728 games, placing him third in all-time major league wins. La Russa is also known for his tireless animal rescue work and instilling in his players an interest in giving back to their communities. He has been instrumental in the success of Cardinals Care, the St. Louis Cardinals community foundation.

Read About Tony La Russa

La Russa’s Commencement Address

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What will the Class of 2014 miss most about Washington University? What’s next for graduates? And what exactly are those funny graduation caps called? WUSTL senior Rose McCarty finds out.

Class Acts: Celebrating the past, ready for the future.

A five-part series in recognition of students who are changing the world through research, service and innovation.

2014 Achieving Excellence

Fashion sense

January 6, 2015
Fashion sense
Camille Lynn Wright, a fashion major in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, traveled to Senegal as part of a six-week independent research project with the African and African-American Studies program in Arts & Sciences.
2014 Achieving Excellence

Rhodes Scholar credits campus life for shaping him

January 6, 2015
Rhodes Scholar credits campus life for shaping him
he 27th Rhodes Scholar from Washington University, Joshua Aiken earned a number of honors throughout the past four years. He served as a Humanity in Action American Fellow (2013), a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission Summer Institute participant (2012) and a U.S. House of Representatives legislative intern (2012).
2014 Serving the Community

Helping in the Classroom

January 6, 2015
Helping in the Classroom
As a freshman, Ken Zheng, a computer science student in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, founded Making Music Matters, which offered free violin lessons to students in one local school.
2014 Serving the Community

Voices that inspire

January 6, 2015
Voices that inspire
It was an interest in law and social work that led Caroline Fish to a Brown School practicum in the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Missouri, but it is an interest in stopping gender-based violence and human trafficking that is leading Fish to continue her work on a volunteer basis long after the practicum ended.