Campus & Community

Sports updates for the week ending Oct. 30, 2011. Updates on football, volleyball, cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, swimming & diving, women’s golf and women’s basketball.

John B. Shapleigh, II, MD, instructor of clinical medicine since 1949, died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at Mari de Villa in Ballwin, Mo., of apparent complications from a respiratory infection. He was 89.

A cold, wet day wasn’t enough to keep Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration, from riding his bicycle through a ribbon dedicating the new bicycle path through the Danforth Campus Oct. 19. Partners from the Great Rivers Greenway District, the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, and Clayton and University City participated in the celebration. The ribbon-cutting event was part of Campus Sustainability Week.

Junior quarterback Dan Burkett threw for two touchdowns and ran for another score as the WUSTL football team posted a 24-21 win at Oberlin College Oct. 22. Updates also included on men’s and women’s soccer.

Approximately 1,500 members of the Class of 2015 arrived on campus this past August. The freshman class was selected from nearly 29,000 applicants, and approximately half are female and half male. And they have been acclimating well, thanks to welcome events and advice from WUSTL upperclassmen, faculty and staff.

The football team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 24-20 win over the College of Wooster Oct. 15, at Francis Field. Updates also included on volleyball, cross country, men’s and women’s soccer and men’s tennis.

The No. 2 volleyball team set a new Division III record for consecutive set victories in a 3-0 win over Lindenwood University (25-13, 25-17, 25-16) at the Washington University Invitational Oct. 8. Updates also included in football, men’s and women’s soccer, golf and swimming & diving.

Stephen H. Legomsky, JD, DPhil, the John S. Lehmann University Professor at the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed chief counsel for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), effective Oct. 24, 2011, announced Ivan Fong, general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security.

It was an historic afternoon for the No. 2 volleyball team as the Bears picked up a 3-0 victory over New York University at the first University Athletic Association (UAA) round robin of the season at the Washington University Field House Oct. 2. Updates also available on men’s and women’s socer, women’s tennis, cross country and swimming and diving.

Professor Wayne Yokoyama, MD, long intrigued by the function of natural killer (NK) cells, has shown that NK cells, using a “licensing strategy,” are vitally important elements of the immune system.