Author: Leslie Gibson McCarthy

The softball team closed out regular season play with a pair of one-run victories over Lindenwood University-Belleville May 5. The team concluded regular-season play with a 28-12 overall record. Updates also included on baseball, track & field and women’s golf.

Malcolm Foley, who will receive degrees in religious studies and finance May 18, has a charisma that draws people to him, whether as an RA in Danforth House, conducting bible study classes on campus, or as an actor on the WUSTL stage at Edison and Hotchner. An Outstanding Graduate in the College of Arts & Sciences, Foley will take that charisma to his next adventure: Yale Divinity School.

A dedication ceremony was held May 4 to pay tribute to Scott and Pyong Rudolph while giving the Earth & Planetary Sciences building on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis a new name. The Scott Rudolph Hall dedication ceremony was held in Whitaker Hall Auditorium and featured special guest speaker and Emmy Award-winning science television show host Bill Nye of “Science Guy” fame. A reception and self-guided tours followed in Rudolph Hall.

A week after transferring into WUSTL as an undergraduate, Todd Coady found himself in a chapter meeting of Engineers Without Borders. As a result, a school for the blind in Ethiopia has a five-year commitment from WUSTL students to help build a water tower. Coady, who will graduate May 18 with a bachelor’s of science degree in mechanical engineering, is the Record‘s Outstanding Graduate from the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

At its spring meeting May 4, the Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis elected seven new members to the board, re-elected seven members and elected officers, among other actions, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

The Washington University in St. Louis Alumni Association will be hosting a “Washington University Day at Circus Flora” at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 9, that will be open to all members of the WUSTL community, including alumni, faculty and staff.

Members of the Class of 2015 enjoy pizza and Ted Drewes frozen custard April 25 outside Danforth University Center, as part of this year’s Freshman Finale. The Freshman Class Council and First Year Center sponsored this signature celebration in Graham Chapel. During the event, awards are presented to people who have had a positive impact on the freshman experience this year.

Mickey Turner and Katie Callaghan, the Record’s Outstanding Graduates from Olin Business School, knew when they met at MBA orientation in fall 2010 that their relationship would be more than a standard business alliance. The couple will be married this July.

A new gift of $5,350,000 from Wells Fargo Advisors to Washington University in St. Louis will support initiatives in the university’s Olin Business School and the Brown School that are designed to enhance and strengthen teaching and research, to apply new knowledge to affect positive societal change and to create pathways for the exchange of ideas between business and academia.

Washington University in St. Louis will hold a dedication ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, in Whitaker Hall to pay tribute to Scott and Pyong Rudolph while giving the Earth & Planetary Sciences building a new name. TV host and “Science Guy” Bill Nye is guest speaker.