Campus & Community

Marilyn Krukowski, PhD, professor emerita of biology, died Sunday, April 7, 2013, in St. Louis from complications of multiple sclerosis. She was 80. Krukowski taught vertebrate structure (anatomy) in the Department of Biology for more than 30 years. Her students raved about the quality of her teaching and often cited the course as the best they ever had taken at Washington University.

More than 1,200 of the brightest and most innovative minds in the world gathered on the Washington University in St. Louis campus this past weekend for the sixth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University. A complete story on the weekend will appear in tomorrow’s Record, but the WUSTL News Tumblr blog was updated throughout the weekend. Read about the weekend as it unfolded at wustlviewcgiu.tumblr.com/.

Jackie and Me explores baseball, history and growing up.

Washington University served as host to the Clinton Global Initiative University this past weekend, helping put global student service in the spotlight.

The Brown School’s Amanda Moore McBride becomes a link from a president to a new generation of university students.

As part of its Clinton Global Initiative University efforts, Washington University in St. Louis has announced a major institutional commitment to action around the important issue of sustainability.

Washington University leaders and selected academic partners meet in India to address the urgent global need for affordable, environmentally friendly access to energy.

The plight of millions of people in rural India who are reliant on solid fuels to cook their food and to heat their homes is the focus of Fires, Fuel & the Fate of 3 Billion: The State of the Energy Impoverished by Gautam Yadama with photography by Mark Katzman. (The book is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.)

Following the global energy symposium in Mumbai, Chancellor Mark Wrighton and Washington University delegates moved on to a meeting of the International Advisory Council for Asia (IACA), which took place Dec. 12–15, 2012, in New Delhi.

The MySci Resource Center, the new hub of Washington University’s Institute for School Partnership, launched Feb. 18 in University City, Mo., to great fanfare.