Campus & Community

Senior Dylan Richter (left) scored 25 points and senior Alex Toth added a career-best 19 points as the men’s basketball team posted a 77-68 victory over No. 17 Wheaton College Dec. 10 at the WU Field House.

Bill Vann, lecturer in graphic illustration from 1978-1982, died suddenly in his sleep at his home in Webster Groves, Mo., Dec. 5, 2011. He was 71.

The men’s basketball team upset No. 1 and previously unbeaten Augustana College, 71-68, to win the 28th Annual Lopata Classic Dec. 3 at the WU Field House. Updates also included on women’s basketball, swimming and diving, track and field, and the 2011 class of inductees into the Washington University Sports Hall of Fame.

In his latest book of essays, Professor Gerald Early asks hardball questions about sports and race.

Devised by alumna Liz Claire, the MADE in France program offers students a life-changing four weeks immersed in dance, choreography and costume design in Paris and rural France.

Together, they give $25 million for two new buildings for graduate education.

Alumni Jonathan Pollack and Stefani Pine Pollack took a love of photography and baking, respectively, and turned it into the Cupcake Project.

Hannah Highfill, a master’s student in Islamic studies in Arts & Sciences, received a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study in Tajikistan in summer 2011.

New studies of the brain by Benjamin Shannon, instructor in radiology at the School of Medicine, suggest that juvenile offenders might be able to “outgrow” their impulsivity.

Ten cutting-edge Sukkahs by architects and designers from around the nation – winners of Sukkah City STL, a contemporary design competition – were installed on the Danforth Campus during October.