Must See: Bear Sports Network
Don’t miss all the fall the action! Live-stream at bearsports.wustl.edu.
Reinventing the Wheels
For Cycles — a spring 2013 Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Commons course taught by Lindsey Stouffer, senior lecturer — students designed and built human-powered vehicles from discarded bicycles. They worked in collaboration with student mechanics involved with St. Louis Bicycle Works (Bworks).
Alumni Travel: The World as Classroom
The Washington University Travel Program continues to offer a broad array of international and national destinations, along with a cohort of lifelong lovers of learning.
Home Again
Amy Locklear Hertel, MSW ’99, JD ’02, returns to North Carolina 15 years and two graduate degrees later (plus one on the way) to lead the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s American Indian Center.
Reunion at the Great Wall
Three Washington Univesity alumni — Fred Tsai, BSBA ’00; Michael Ch’ang, BSBA ’00; and Mark Yen, AB ’99 — visited the Great Wall of China last summer.
Washington University brings Global Foods and the Peacock Loop Diner to The Lofts of Washington University
An anchor tenant in WUSTL’s new Delmar Loop development will fulfill a long-time need along Delmar Boulevard: a grocery store, operated by Global Foods Market. The $80 million retail and student apartment complex under construction will be called The Lofts of Washington University. Another tenant will be the Peacock Loop Diner, operated by Joe Edwards, owner of Blueberry Hill.
Anastasio named interim chair of biomedical engineering
Mark Anastasio, PhD, has been named interim chair of
the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering
& Applied Science effective July 15. Anastasio, professor of
biomedical engineering, succeeds Frank Yin, MD, PhD, the Stephen F. and
Camilla T. Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, who
stepped down as chair in May after leading the department for more than 15 years.
Obituary: Kathleen F. Brickey, JD, professor of law, 68
Kathleen F. Brickey, JD, a giant in the field of white-collar crime and the long-serving James Carr Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence at Washington University School of Law, died Wednesday, June 19, 2013.
Obituary: Thomas H. Steinberg, MD, associate professor of medicine, 61
Thomas H. Steinberg, MD, associate professor of medicine, died Sunday, June 16, 2013, in St. Louis of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Obituary: Lucy M. Lopata, longtime university benefactor, 98
Lucy Mayer Lopata, a longtime friend of Washington University in St. Louis
and a leading local philanthropist, died Friday, May 24, 2013, in St. Louis.
She was 98. Throughout her life, she demonstrated extraordinary
generosity that was built on a foundation of dedication to all
humankind.
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