Author: Diane Toroian Keaggy

Students explore the parallels between Challenger disaster and Ferguson crisis during a unique class.

Thurtene, the oldest student-run carnival in the nation, returns to Washington University in St. Louis with a new attraction: a replica Busch Stadium, complete with turf, outfielders and pennants. This stadium, however, will not host baseball’s major leaguers but tomorrow’s Whiffle ball champions.

Students can take a simple step this week to save lives: sign up to be organ donors. Student Organ Donation Advocates urge university students and community members to go online and participate in College Organ Donation Registration Day.

Our Washington is the faculty and staff component of Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University. The campaign will raise money for new scholarships, as well as strengthen academic and scientific initiatives, advance learning and enhance facilities.

Provost Holden Thorp has appointed Stephanie Kurtzman, director of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, as interim executive director. The university will launch this fall a nationwide search for a permanent faculty director.

Student a cappella group Mosaic Whispers will perform two concerts on the Washington University in St. Louis campus this weekend. The group just won the Midwest semifinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) and later this month will compete at the ICCA Finals in New York.

Some 1,200 Washington University students, faculty and staff will gather at Francis Field Saturday Saturday, April 9, for Relay For Life, a 12-hour benefit for the American Cancer Society. For members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, the event offers an opportunity to honor a fraternity brother who died of cancer.

Rudolph Clay, of Washington University Libraries, has been elected to a two-year term on the Black Caucus of the American Library Association executive board.

Two outstanding educators — one who served generations of Washington University graduates, another who is helping develop the college students of tomorrow — will be honored at the first Washington University Trailblazers recognition ceremony.

Thurtene Carnival of Washington University in St. Louis has selected as its community partner Ready Readers, a leading local nonprofit that inspires children to love books.