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5 days ago | 
timesnewspapers.com | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
In November 2019, Tom and I drove to Chicago to watch our oldest son, Matt, get sworn in as an attorney for the state of Illinois. He had just started working at a Chicago law firm and was living in the iconic Marina Towers on the Chicago River. After a celebratory lunch, I remember dropping him at his apartment thinking, “Well, he’s launched.” A mom’s work is never done, of course, so it was comforting to know if he ever needed us, Chicago was just five hours away.
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2 weeks ago | 
source.washu.edu | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
What do K-pop music and McDonald’s restaurants have in common? Not much, actually. But these iconic institutions are great entry points into the study of modern East Asian culture. In “From McDonald’s to K-pop: New Movements in East Asia,” students explore values in East Asian societies as well as how pop culture moves within the region and around the world, from West to East and back again.
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2 weeks ago | 
source.washu.edu | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
Like many boys growing up in Indiana, CJ Harrington’s story revolved around the game of basketball — a sport he began playing as a kid in his hometown of Indianapolis. And indeed, basketball was everything for Harrington, AB ’17, for most of his young Hoosier life. He proudly recalls, for example, how he helped his high school, Park Tudor, to not only two Indiana state championships but also his school’s first county league title.
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2 weeks ago | 
source.washu.edu | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
In the spring of 1982, Edward Washington II took his last exam at Washington University of St. Louis School of Law and waited for the official notification of the successful completion of his legal studies. Once he got that letter in the campus mail, he packed up his car and drove north on Interstate 55 to his hometown of Chicago, not altogether sure he’d ever be back in St. Louis again. “At that point, I was exhausted and broke,” recalls Washington, JD ’82.
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2 weeks ago | 
source.washu.edu | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
We had an immediate affection for one another, that day at lunch, and we acknowledged it, as was right and proper among the grown-ups, for one instant at farewells. I’ve remembered that moment with happiness, and will continue to do so, and as I hope you may do too. Maybe just as well – though I don’t altogether think this – that we’re in no position to get all of this translated into reality; think of the damage we’re not doing to one another! That letter, dated Jan.
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1 month ago | 
timesnewspapers.com | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
In June 1989, I took my last exam at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, a law school class on the legalities of media that focused on the First Amendment and landmark Supreme Court cases. I remember turning in my blue book then heading to Wrigley Field, where my friends and I celebrated in the bleachers. Just one week later, we were to gather in a campus auditorium, where, as master’s degree recipients, we’d pick up our diplomas and be “hooded” in crimson as journalism scholars.
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1 month ago | 
source.washu.edu | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
She didn’t flip, tuck or handspring onto the Commencement stage in academic regalia, but Simone Biles surely leaped into the hearts of the Class of 2025, delivering a memorable keynote address at WashU’s 164th Commencement ceremony. “I would probably feel more comfortable if they had allowed me to vault onto the stage and do a little floor routine,” said Biles, one of the most decorated gymnasts in history with 11 Olympic medals — seven gold — and 30 world championship medals.
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2 months ago | 
timesnewspapers.com | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
These days of uncertainty call us to recognize moments of joy. And so one April Saturday, the kind of day where spring is bursting through your pores, I invite the two neighbor girls next door to bring their sidewalk chalk over to our freshly poured driveway. Within minutes, Vera, 6, and Lucy, 3, get to it, drawing flowers, bunnies and Easter baskets up and down 50 feet of white concrete, including squiggly lines that resemble a river on the walkway to our front door.
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2 months ago | 
source.washu.edu | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
On Oct. 3, 2022, as the world was continuing to emerge from the grips of a global pandemic, Washington University unveiled a bold and ambitious strategic plan called “Here and Next.”Developed through a process that included 18 months of listening, outreach and work sessions — most of it on Zoom — and incorporating feedback from thousands of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners, the plan mapped out a path forward for WashU for the next decade.
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2 months ago | 
source.washu.edu | Leslie Gibson McCarthy
One visit was all it took for Jay Kaiser, MD ’72, to choose WashU’s School of Medicine. “I was accepted at three medical schools, but once I saw WashU, I didn’t care about the others,” he says. “I knew I wanted to be at a place that offered such a high level of teaching and patient care. And they made it clear that economics were not going to prevent me from going there.”Scholarships and loans made it possible for Kaiser to attend and helped pave the way for a distinguished career as a radiologist.
