Campus & Community

Marvin Jay Cummins, PhD, a longtime member of the Washington University Arts & Sciences faculty in sociology and political science, died Friday, March 1, 2013. He was 77.​

Renowned author and art historian Udo Kultermann, who taught architecture at WUSTL for nearly 30 years, died Feb. 9, 2013, in New York City, following a long illness. He was 85.

Islamic art specialist Melanie Michailidis, PhD, the Korff Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Art at Washington University in St. Louis, was killed Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, in an automobile accident in Ladue, Mo. She was 46. Michailidis was in the second year of a three-year joint fellowship she held in the university’s Department of Art History and Archaeology and at the Saint Louis Art Museum. ​

Melvin White decided the St. Louis street named for Martin Luther King Jr. fell far short of being worthy of its namesake – and he set out to change that. White founded the nonprofit Beloved Streets of America, and WUSTL honored his efforts with this year’s Rosa L. Parks Award.

Luce Scholar Jeremy Pivor, also a Rhodes and Marshall scholar finalist, sets course for his life’s work: becoming an international ocean policy expert.

At Washington University, broad efforts from a range of faculty are helping people understand — and act on — good science.

The lure of hidden treasure has launched countless ­expeditions — maddening searches for lost cities, sunken ships and buried fortunes.

Alumnus Qiu Xiaolong is author of a series of internationally acclaimed mystery novels featuring Chief Inspector Chen, a poet-detective who works to expose the historic brutality and ongoing corruption of the Chinese Communist Party.

Poet Mary Jo Bang finds a little Pink Floyd in Dante’s Inferno.

A 2,500-mile mission: Business graduate student Mike McLaughlin raises money and hope for vulnerable kids.