Author: Leslie Gibson McCarthy

Community Counts was one of the featured projects at Faces of Hope, an annual celebration of civic engagement and community service April 8 at Whitaker Hall.

Sports updates for the week of April 12, 2010.

Senior Zach Greenberg was selected Mr. Wash U April 1 at Edison Theatre. He beat out 16 contestants in the yearlong, annual event that raises money for the charity City Faces.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Olin Dean Mahendra Gupta, PhD, welcome Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (center) to campus April 7. WUSTL was the third and last stop on the governor’s tour through the state to promote his budget.

Eric Greitens (left) works with volunteers to prepare care packages for U.S. troops serving overseas following his Assembly Series presentation March 30. The former Navy SEAL and Rhodes Scholar was on campus to speak about The Mission Continues, the organization he founded that provides career service opportunities for wounded and injured veterans.

The week in sports, March 29-April 4

A team of psychologists at Washington University that include graduate student Jonathan Jackson have found an intriguing possibility that personality and brain aging during the golden years may be linked.

Students build a replica of the Gateway Arch on the South 40 Swamp in the Wash U Build Extravanganza March 27. Ten teams of WUSTL undergraduates participated in the team-building exercise sponsored by the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

Sports updates for week of March 29

The final campus-wide blood drive of the academic year will be held at eight locations throughout the university Wednesday, March 31.