Washington University’s Thurtene holds neighborhood block party, basketball clinic for kids
Students from Washington University in St. Louis are gearing up for the annual Thurtene Carnival, and they’ll host community events this weekend — including a block party and youth basketball clinic — to bring the university’s neighbors together to join the fun.
New faculty join School of Engineering
Nine new faculty members have joined the WUSTL School of Engineering & Applied Science this academic year. That marks the largest number of newly recruited faculty ever to join the school. The new faculty members’ expertise ranges from biomedical to electrical, and energy to mechanical engineering. Read more to learn about their backgrounds and what they each of them brings to the Engineering School.
Obituary: Carl Rovainen, professor emeritus, 73
Carl Rovainen, PhD, professor emeritus of cell biology
and physiology, died of cancer March 1, 2013, in Brookings, Ore. Rovainen retired from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 2001, after 34 years as a
faculty member.
Project Blacktop: Student athlete Cooney works to make a difference in St. Louis
Student athlete Tim Cooney grew up in St. Louis and rarely had a place where his friends could gather and play a pickup game of basketball. Cooney, a junior guard on the WUSTL men’s basketball team, is trying to change that for future generations.
Obituary: Marvin J. Cummins, longtime faculty member, 77
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.
Obituary: Udo Kultermann, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor Emeritus of Architecture, 85
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.
Melanie Michailidis, postdoctoral fellow in art history and archaeology, dies in car accident, 46
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.
Man works to improve streets named for Martin Luther King
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.
From Washington U. to the World
Luce Scholar Jeremy Pivor, also a Rhodes and Marshall scholar finalist, sets course for his life’s work: becoming an international ocean policy expert.
Distilling Science, Making It Accessible
At Washington University, broad efforts from a range of faculty are helping people understand — and act on — good science.
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