Year: 2017

Leading Together enhances excellence at Washington University.

Alumna Marissa Hockfield has recruited and interviewed talented students for 15 years.

The Washington University Alumni ­Association ­welcomed more than 1,000 alumni, parents, ­students and friends to Fall Festival on Oct. 29, 2016.

Mary Merritt Sale, professor emerita in classics and comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, died under hospice care at her home in Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 8, 2017, from complications of autoimmune disease. She was 87.

Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in eastern Eurasia. Securely dated to about 100,000 years ago, the Xuchang fossils present a mosaic of features.

The Kemper Art Museum is accepting applications from students interested in its paid Internship to Promote and Encourage Diversity in the Museum Profession. Applications are due April 7.

David C. Van Essen, PhD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is being awarded the George A. Miller Prize for distinguished scholarship by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Washington University Choirs will join forces March 3 for the 2017 Chancellor’s Concert, featuring music of Franz Schubert and Giovanni Bottesini.

The university’s Police and Parking Services departments, in partnership with Hartmann’s Towing, once again will sponsor free travelers’ vehicle inspections for students, faculty and staff from noon-2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 4, in the lower level of Millbrook Garage.

By changing one small portion of a stimulus that influences part of one molecule’s function, engineers and researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have opened the door for more insight into how the molecule is associated with high blood pressure, autism and movement disorders.