Campus & Community

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

Ronald Krieger, AB ’59, shares a vivid memory of meeting composer Aaron Copland at WashU in 1958.

How a bit of moxie and a whole lot of heart jump-started the WashU women’s soccer program.

WashU has built an athletic program that prioritizes development of the student first, and the athlete second.

Launched in 2007, WashU’s Alberti Program offers young people a hands-on introduction to architecture, a field rarely included in the K-12 curriculum. Students ask the same questions, use the same tools and build the same models as real-life architects.

As public trust in higher education falters, WashU leans into our strengths of affordability, career readiness and open dialogue.

After many years of support for scholarships and innovative health initiatives at WashU, this spring the Bursky family made a landmark commitment of $200 million through our With You campaign — the largest gift to WashU in our history — to accelerate the work of our new School of Public Health.

Vincent Mellnick, MD, has been named senior vice chair and division director of academic practice and Malak Itani, MD, has been named section chief of abdominal imaging. Both are faculty members in WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.

Pamela Barmash, interim chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been elected president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

Angela Coonce, chief of the WashU Police Department, will be inducted as an inaugural member of the new Harris-Stowe State University Athletic Hall of Fame. She was selected for excellence and leadership on and off the basketball court at her alma mater.