Campus & Community

Alumni and experts share tips about how to be a successful entrepreneur.

In the last year, dozens of books by university faculty and alumni hit the shelves. Here we share just a small selection of the noteworthy tomes that are making an impact on literature, research and best-seller lists.

Alicia McDonnell, JD ’95, is a former prosecutor. Today, she encourages law students to pursue careers in public service.

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.

William Hawkins, MD, never met the man who helped inspire him to become a cancer surgeon and researcher. Hawkins was born six months after his grandfather Gabriel Jooris, an artist and art restorer, died of the disease. But his and other losses guided Hawkins’ career path.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Egon Schwarz, the Rosa May Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. He was 94.