Campus & Community

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton is in India this week with a group of Washington University in St. Louis leaders and members of the McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership (MAGEEP) to first talk about global energy and environmental solutions and then meet with the university’s International Advisory Council of Asia. The first stop: Mumbai, where the Chancellor presents the first of his “Insights from India.”

The No. 5 women’s basketball team improved to 6-1 with a pair of wins over Millikin University (71-42) and Augustana College (74-61) last week.

Frances “Fran” (nee Maric) Winker, a patient-service representative in orthopedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in an accident on Interstate 44 in Oakland. She was 49.

Washington University in St. Louis sophomore midfielder Anna Zambricki was named to the 2012 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/Continental Tire Women’s Soccer Division III All-America Team, as announced Dec. 4 by the association.

Washington University in St. Louis junior cornerback Andrew Skalman was named to the 2012 D3football.com All-South Region Third Team, as announced Dec. 4.

The No. 10 men’s basketball team captured the 29th annual Lopata Classic with a 67-57 win over No. 7 Illinois Wesleyan University Saturday at the Field House.

Through a series of targeted events, Washington University (through Bear Beginnings: New Student Fall Orientation and the First 40) aims to assist first-year students in adapting and, ultimately, excelling in college.

Six women science stars who are part of the recently launched Mars Curiosity mission exemplify Washington University’s excellent training in the sciences.

Washington University considers ways to maintain, preserve, restore and adaptively reuse original campus buildings for a new era.

The first major U.S. museum exhibition in 16 years devoted to seminal modern artist Georges Braque will open Jan. 25, 2013, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 will run through April 21, 2013.