Campus & Community

Janni Lee Simner, AB ’89, AB ’89, made a promise to herself when she was 15: She would never forget that she was real.

A native of India, Ani Vallabhaneni, BSBA ’02, BSCS ’02, knows firsthand about the lack of sanitation in developing countries. An estimated 2.5 billion people lack ­access to adequate sanitation in the developing world, and 1.6 million children die each year from diarrheal disease as a result. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Sanergy, Vallabhaneni is […]

Looking for a new way to stay connected to the Washington University community? Visit the new A&D website, alumni.wustl.edu.

Join the 1st through 35th Reunion classes for Alumni Weekend at Thurtene Carnival, April 20-22. Undergraduate alumni from the classes of 1972 and back will celebrate during Commencement Weekend, May 18-20.

On Nov. 4, 2011, the Alumni Board of Governors (ABG) gathered for its first meeting of the academic year at College Hall on the South 40. One of ABG’s goals this year is to help prepare students for their lives after graduation.

Phillip Todd Chazen, a business development specialist in the Career Center at Washington University in St. Louis, died Jan. 26. He was 37.

Men’s basketball picked up two big wins over the University of Rochester and Emory University and gained first place in University Athletic Association standings. Updates also included on women’s basketball, track and field, and women’s soccer team fundraiser.

Ralph J. Cicerone, PhD, president of the National Academy of Sciences, speaks about climate change at WUSTL Jan. 23, meticulously presenting the most current data on climate change. The talk, the first in a series on climate change, was sponsored by I-CARES and the Tyson Research Center, which plan to continue to enage the WUSTL community in an ongoing conversation about climate change.

The seventh-ranked women’s basketball team erased a 10-point second-half deficit, and a second-chance basket at the buzzer by senior Brianne Monahan gave the Bears a 51-49 home victory over New York University Jan. 22. Updates also included on men’s basketball, track and field and swimming and diving.

Marsha Cann, left, and Ron Himes of The Black Rep perform Jan. 16 during the 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration in Graham Chapel at Washington University in St. Louis. Himes, a WUSTL alumnus and the founder and producing director of The Black Rep, received the Rosa L. Parks Award for Meritorius Service to the Community. The event also paid tribute to the late James E. McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.