Campus & Community

WUSTL junior back Kate Doyle has been named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Women’s Soccer Team, announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Otha L. Overholt, 71, who worked at Washington University for nearly 37 years, died at her home in Kirkwood, Mo., on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Overholt began as a technical specialist in the Office of Computing and Communications in 1971 and retired in 2008 as associate director of Computing and Communications.

The No. 21 men’s basketball team improved its overall record to 5-0 with three victories a week ago. The Bears posted an 85-62 victory over Fontbonne University Tuesday at home, and then posted a pair of wins over Austin College (94-63) and Simpson College (71-66) Friday and Saturday at the Snyder Classic in Lincoln, Neb.

The No. 3 women’s soccer team advanced to the Sweet 16 with a pair of victories at home last weekend. WUSTL advances to the sectional semifinals for the second-straight season and will take on No. 14 Concordia College (Moorhead) at 3 p.m. Friday at Francis Field. The Bears will host the NCAA Sectional for the first time in school history. In the other Sectional semifinal Friday, No. 2 Hardin-Simmons University will take on No. 11 Wheaton College (Ill.) at 5:30 p.m.

The No. 4 WUSTL women’s soccer team will host 2012 NCAA Division III First and Second Round action Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 10-11, at Francis Field.

The football team limited Case Western Reserve University to 184 yards of total offense in a 10-7 victory Nov. 3 at Case Field in Cleveland, Ohio. With the win Washington University secured a share of its ninth University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship in school history and its first since 2004.

Merl M. Huntsinger (BU 47), who retired from Washington University in 1981 as treasurer and secretary, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, in a New Orleans hospital. He was 97. 

Sandra Brennan, longtime assistant to the dean of the Sam Fox School Design & Visual Arts, died at her home in Webster Groves Monday, Oct. 29, following a long illness. She was 73. 

Sophomore Anna Zambricki recorded the third hat trick of her career to lead the No. 5 women’s soccer team to a 3-0 victory at Case Western Reserve University Oct. 28 in Cleveland, Ohio. With the win, WUSTL claimed the UAA’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament and at least a share of its eighth conference championship.

Roch Guérin, PhD, has been named chair of the Computer Science & Engineering department effective July 1, 2013. Guérin is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications Networks and professor of electrical and systems engineering and computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1998.