Campus & Community

The women’s soccer team won the WUSTL Classic over the weekend with victories over DePauw University 3-2 and and Rhodes College 1-0. The shutout against Rhodes was the third shutout of the season for coach Jim Conlon’s team. Updates also included on football, volleyball and men’s soccer.

James E. McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital of kidney failure after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 67. In a letter addressed to the WUSTL community Sept. 6, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced that “Washington University has lost one of its greatest citizens and leaders.”

The football team posted a 28-10 win at Knox College in its 2011 season opener Sept. 3 at the Knosher Bowl in Galesburg, Ill. Updates included in volleyball, women’s and men’s soccer and cross country.

Joseph R. Passonneau, who served as dean of the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis from 1956-67, died in his sleep Monday, Aug. 22, at his home in Washington, D.C., following an extended illness. He was 90.

St. Louis-area high school student Anjali Fernandes creates a wind turbine during the School of Engineering & Applied Science’s “Explore Engineering” program July 26. The program grew out of a conversation between students who belong to the National Society of Black Engineers and Ralph Quatrano, PhD, dean and the Spencer T. Olin Professor, and seeks to give underrepresented groups exposure to engineering and to the university.

Both the men’s and women’s swimming teams earned 2010-11 Team Scholar All-America honors from by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). Updates include preseason polls in women’s soccer, men’s soccer and football, as well as the addition of former Olympian Lori Chalupny to the Bears’ coaching staff.

University Libraries, with funding from the Mellon Foundation, is preserving acetate-based film from Part I of Eyes on the Prize, the epic series detailing the struggles of the civil rights era.

Professor T.R. Kidder (featured in the June issue) recently returned from Sanyangzhuang, China. Each trip reveals new insights to buried, but well-preserved, farming villages there.

Soon to be dedicated, Green Hall is the latest of the stately structures that dot the university’s Danforth Campus. The Collegiate Gothic buildings exhibit excellent stone workmanship and the exquisite interplay of Missouri red granite and Indiana limestone.

Alumna Juliette Brindak created a website for tween girls, where they can talk to each other, play games, and get advice on how to survive the middle school years. Miss O & Friends is now rated the third-best girls-only website that accepts advertising, according to the web information service Alexa data.