Gallery of Graduates

Solawetz is one of about 15 WUSTL language students who take part in a twice-a-week tutoring program to help Hispanic families on the city's south side.
Solawetz is one of about 15 WUSTL language students who take part in a twice-a-week tutoring program to help Hispanic families on the city’s south side.

Danforth Scholar Solawetz is ‘ambassador of hope’

She has touched young lives as a volunteer in the orphanages of Chile and Mexico and as a tutor in low-income Hispanic neighborhoods of south St. Louis.


Anwisye hopes to make medical care more accessible

“I’m not under any illusions that it will be simple, but I’ve had so many great examples in my life that have done what others have felt to be impossible,” she says.


Military veteran Traugott makes the cut in surgery

Prior to medical school, she worked in the Army as an Arabic translator at a camp for Iraqi and Kurdish refugees; she also trained in intelligence.


Cass juggles family, work to finish economics degree

A senior department leader at Edward Jones, she started her undergraduate career nearly three decades ago at Marquette University.


Music and physics ring in true harmony for Mertz

The double major in physics and American Culture Studies also was a cellist in the Washington University Symphony Orchestra and several chamber orchestras.


Mind, body & soul: Traub rounds out math doctorate

Through community outreach and participation on area kickball, softball and volleyball teams, she found the right equation to combine her varied interests.

Engineering’s Brewer intends to improve the environment

His undergraduate years are characterized by service, commitment and intellectual curiosity; among other projects, he tutored inner-city children for two years.


Repice makes key connections between art and life

Through his varied studies — which include a master’s degree in economics from George Washington University — he sees connection to a broader world.


Polonsky sees life plan come into focus with J.D.

The Boston native graduated with an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and spent three years in strategy consulting in California.


David Ader welcomes President George W. Bush to the University Oct. 8, 2004, for the second presidential debate of that campaign.
David Ader welcomes President George W. Bush to the University Oct. 8, 2004, for the second presidential debate of that campaign.

Olin’s Ader boasts ‘an authentic style of leadership’

The two-term Student Union President also was on the University’s club gymnastics team and later became a coach at a local gymnastics center.


Dhanju hopes to be an agent of social change in India

Her academic concentrations were social and economic development; “I decided to study in the U.S. to gain a more global perspective,” she says.


Survant seeks out ‘new ways of seeing’ in his designs

He recently entered “Light of Tomorrow,” a conceptual design competition sponsored by VELUX, the European skylight manufacturer.