Among the exiled was 17-year-old Richard Winter, a Viennese Jew who loved his city but would struggle for the rest of his life to understand its acquiescent response to this tragedy. FULL STORY

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helped translate 'Vienna's Conscience'

Human Rights Institute Provides Outlet for Teens
Inaugural program brings passionate high schoolers to Webster

It turns out that the 2008-09 academic year, which the College of Arts & Sciences is celebrating as the Year of International Human Rights, was destined to be a success from the start. This past summer, Webster University attracted inquiring teenage minds to its first annual Institute for Human Rights. For three weeks in June, these bright young students dove into issues at a depth they’d never seen before.

Seed money for the project was provided by College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Board member Will Carpenter, who envisioned a human rights- and science-related project befitting Webster’s global mission.

In executing Carpenter’s vision, Andrea Miller, director of Webster’s Center for the Study of Human Rights... FULL STORY

Kemper Award Winner 'Angles' for Students
Anne McIlhaney's ‘Enthusiasm for Literature is Contagious'

When people talk of Webster as a “teaching university,” they’re referring to professors like Anne McIlhaney.

Though somewhat unassuming by nature, McIlhaney’s passion for teaching and mentoring does not go unnoticed by colleagues and students. It is from their nominations and effusive praise of her work that McIlhaney received the 2008 Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Yet while praise from colleagues and fond recollections from former students are signs of a special professor, perhaps the clearest sign is the rush of students who line up to take her classes, semester after semester. McIlhaney’s students speak of signing up for her classes simply because, “Professor McIlhaney is teaching it. Of course it will be interesting.” FULL STORY