Campus & Community

Lisa Weingarth, senior advisor to the chancellor and executive director of WashU’s “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative, recently accepted a post on the Great Rivers Greenway Foundation board of directors.

The Sam Fox School has announced the launch of Design Openings. Created in collaboration with the Kranzberg Arts Center and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, this multiyear initiative invites interdisciplinary St. Louis design teams to animate public life in the Covenant Blu Grand Center neighborhood.

Washington University in St. Louis has launched WashU Serves, a new year-round volunteer initiative that reflects the university’s “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” commitment to strengthen the region. In partnership with the United Way of Greater St. Louis, WashU Serves offers the university community more ways to get involved.

The Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement at WashU is now accepting nominations and applications for the William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award. 

Led by members of the women’s tennis team, the WashU chapter of Second Serves hosts tennis clinics for the local community and provides donated rackets and covers, shoes and tennis bags for children.

Career Catalysts, a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns, profiles pre-law student Winston Mattson, a Gephardt Institute St. Louis Fellow and an intern at Seed St. Louis.

Career Catalysts, a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns, visits junior Kiersten Anderson as she leads a therapy session with individuals with memory-related illnesses. Her internship at St. Louis nonprofit Memory Keepers is funded by the Chancellor’s Career Fellows Program, which supports low-income, first-generation students.

WashU’s latest building renovation in Cortex will provide space and support for bioscience startups.

Career Catalysts is a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns. In this installment, meet architecture student Bedgid Aurelie Laguerre, who worked at Christner Architects as a CityStudioSTL Fellow. There, she learned that good communication and good design go hand in hand.

There’s a lot of interest in revitalizing neighborhoods, but community leaders and investors need localized data and measurable benchmarks to know if their investments will generate the intended results. Olin Business School graduate students at Washington University in St. Louis created a tool that could help.