Campus & Community

Members of the Washington University community follow their research goals to the corners of the world.

Alumna Alice Ndikumana, a technology consultant at Deloitte focusing on health care, finds herself on the front lines of one of the most hotly contested policy debates in U.S. history: health-care reform under the Affordable Care Act.

As the dining writer for The Times-Picayune and its website, NOLA.com, Todd Price, AB ’96, has become a well-known figure in the Big Easy’s bustling restaurant community.

The confluence of astrophysics and art meet in the studio of Annette Lee, MS ’08. An artist-scientist of Native ­American ­ancestry, Lee’s work has ­reconnected the Dakota and Ojibwe tribes with the star knowledge of her forebearers.

For his Lost Memory collection, photographer Stanley Strembicki documented water-damaged photographs former residents of New Orleans were forced to abandon during Hurricane Katrina.

Alumni stay connected to the university through Washington University Clubs, Reunion, Alumni Board of Governors and more.

Our goal is to strengthen the university’s leadership ­today to benefit St. Louis, America and the world tomorrow.

Alumnus Ed deZevallos is a lifelong serial entrepreneur, managing risk against reward and sharing his success to ­provide opportunities for others.

With his round glasses, amused diction and stiff, patrician carriage, Harold Ramis (AB ’66), was the coolest nerd in the room, a deadpan bomb-thrower, an ironist for the ages. You were never sure if he was joking. That was half the joke.

Whether he did or did not cut down that cherry tree, George Washington loved trees. He planted hundreds on his Mount Vernon estate. And, by George, Washington University in St. Louis has a direct descendent of one of those trees on its Danforth Campus. WUSTL’s horticuluturists have taken special care of the tree since receiving the seedling in 1991. One of 60 seedlings sent to sites around the country, only 12 offspring remain of Washington’s tulip poplar.