Washington University to Turn Student Loans into Grants

Washington University in St. Louis has a city named after it, sort of. Its huge campus borders University City and Clayton and also Forest Park. Sometimes I think that U. City with all of its restaurants, shopping, theaters, and bars was built to accommodate the students. I also have a couple of other associations with the school. My uncle went there and received his engineering degree and my personal physician, whom I've known for about twelve years now, heads up the Diabetes Center there. It was great to see him start out as a bright young doctor practicing internal medicine and then become one of the foremost leading authorities on metabolic diseases in the country.

Washington University was founded in 1853. One of the founders was William Greenleaf Elliot, who was the father of the Nobel Prize laureate poet T.S. Elliot. The university was originally named Elliot Seminary, but the name was changed just a year later to Washington Institute in St. Louis to reflect its original location at 17^th and Washington in downtown St. Louis. That name was later changed to Washington University because there were so many other institutions with the same name. (www.wikipedia.com)

Washington University has become one of the top schools in the country. Some twenty-two Nobel laureates have been associated with the college. Its school of medicine is ranked fourth in the country and has done pioneering research in a number of diseases. It is closely associated with Barnes teaching hospital. (www.wikipedia.com)