Campus & Community

Join alumni, parents, friends, students and staff for the first-ever Washington University Day at Circus Flora. This promises to be a fun event for the whole family as Circus Flora presents The Wizard: Merlin & the Legends of King Arthur.

The baseball team won all five games last week to improve its overall record to 17-6 on the season. Updates also included on softball, men’s tennis, swimming & diving, track & field and women’s golf.

The No. 21 softball team secured a second-place finish at the 2012 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship Tournament with a split in the final two games March 17 in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Updates also included on baseball, men’s and women’s tennis, swimming and women’s golf.

After starting the season with three straight losses, the baseball team earned its ninth consecutive win to improve its record to 9-3 overall, 2-0 in UAA play. The victory over Brandeis matched the longest winning streak for the Bears since 2007. Updates also included on men’s and women’s track, softball, tennis and golf.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams saw their seasons come to an end with losses in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Updates also included on baseball, softball, women’s tennis, track and field and swimming and diving.

Five student-athletes earned individual University Athletic Association titles to lead the Bears to a sweep of the men’s and women’s team conference championships Feb. 26 at the New Balance Track & Field Center in New York. Updates also included on men’s and women’s basketball season finales; swimming and diving; men’s tennis; and the opening series of the baseball season.

Burton M. Wheeler, PhD, professor emeritus of English and of religious studies, both in Arts & Sciences, and a beloved teacher and former dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Friday, Feb. 17, at his home in Warson Woods, Mo., after a long battle with cancer. He would have turned 85 March 12.

The No. 24 men’s basketball team scored the last 11 points of the game and clinched the 2012 University Athletic Association (UAA) championship with a 74-68 victory at New York University Feb. 19. Updates also included on women’s basketball, track and field, swimming and diving and women’s tennis.

The School of Engineering & Applied Science will host a week of special events beginning Sunday, Feb. 19, to inspire current and future engineers. WUSTL’s EnWeek is one of many similar celebrations taking place at engineering schools across the country under the auspices of the National Engineers Week Foundation.

Vicki Kunkler, director of publications and communications at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, of cancer. She was 64.