Campus & Community

The men’s track & field team won its fourth-consecutive University Athletic Association (UAA) outdoor title, while the WUSTL women finished as the runner-up for the second year in a row on the final day of the 2012 UAA Outdoor Championships April 29.

The No. 17 men’s tennis team won its seventh straight match with an 8-1 victory over No. 30 DePauw University April 21 at the Tao Tennis Center. WUSTL is 9-0 this season at home has won 15 straight home matches dating back to last season. Updates also included on women’s tennis, women’s golf, track & field, softball and baseball.

The No. 17 men’s tennis team ran its winning streak to six matches with a 7-2 win at No. 30 University of Chicago April 15. The Bears improved their overall record to 12-5 and picked up their fifth win this season over a ranked team. Updates also included on baseball and softball, track & field, women’s golf and women’s tennis.

Sophomore Anna Etherington set a school record in the pole vault as one of eight event champions for the WUSTL track & field team April 7 at the WU Select Meet. Updates also included on baseball, softball and men’s and women’s tennis.

The baseball team recorded 24 hits, including 10 for extra bases, as the Bears earned their 20th win of the season — and 8th in a row — with a 25-13 victory over St. Norbert College April 1 at Kelly Field. Updates also included on softball, men’s tennis, track & field and women’s golf.

Crickette Sanz, assistant professor of anthropology, and David Morgan, conservation and research fellow at the Lincoln Park Zoo and Wildlife Conservation Society, are co-directors of the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project. Their organization’s mission is to promote the long-term conservation of Congo’s great apes and ape habitat.

Law Professor John Inazu suggests that one way to reclaim the right of assembly is to raise it as an independent claim in constitutional litigation.

In fall 2011, the Rev. Dr. Earl K. Holt republished his biography, William Greenleaf Eliot: Conservative Radical, to honor the 200th anniversary of Eliot’s 1811 birth.

Alumnus Steve Hogan heads music operations for Internet sensation Pandora; on the side, he plays the organ at San Francisco Giants home games.

With a concentration of high-tech startups second only to the United States, Israel is considered the world’s next Silicon Valley.