Campus & Community

Although now an Emmy- and Peabody-winner, sports television producer Michael Hughes, BSBA ’01, got his start on a much smaller stage. While a student at Washington ­University, he hosted and filmed bits for What’s Up, WashU?, a low-budget show for on-campus station WUTV. Initially recruited by a fellow member of the football team because he was “loud […]

Alumna Jazzy Danziger, AB ’07, received the 2012 ­ Brittingham Prize in Poetry for her book, Darkroom (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).

Tom and Colleen Ferguson, co-chairs of the WU Club of San Francisco Young Professionals Group, discuss the enjoyment they get from volunteering.

Burton M. Wheeler, professor emeritus of English and of religious studies and former dean of the College of Arts & ­Sciences, died Feb. 17, 2012.

Senior Erica Jackey led five individual All-Americans for the track & field teams at the NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships May 24-26 in Claremont, Calif. Updates also included on men’s and women’s tennis, women’s crew and the Director’s Cup standings.

A memorial service in honor of Michael J. Welch, PhD, who was a faculty member for more than four decades at Washington University in St. Louis, will be held at 3 p.m. June 4 in Graham Chapel.

The baseball team was one of 56 teams selected to compete in the 2012 NCAA Division III baseball championship, and will travel to Millington, Tenn., to compete in regional play Wednesday through Sunday, May 16-20. Updates also included on women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis and track & field.

Michael J. Welch, PhD, a pioneering radiochemist who was the author of more than 550 papers on the use of radioactive drugs in diagnosis and treatment of disease, died Sunday, May 6, 2012. He was 72.

The softball team closed out regular season play with a pair of one-run victories over Lindenwood University-Belleville May 5. The team concluded regular-season play with a 28-12 overall record. Updates also included on baseball, track & field and women’s golf.

The College of Arts & Sciences will introduce a newly revised curriculum, called Integrated InQuiry (IQ), for undergraduate students at Washington University in St. Louis. Developed over a four-year process with input from students, faculty and administrators, the IQ will be available to new undergraduates arriving this fall.