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Photo by Joe AngelesChancellor Mark S. Wrighton visits in his office Aug. 21 with Yoshio “Matt” Matsumoto (second from left), Yoshio’s son Joseph and his grandson, Andrew, a current freshman. Yoshio was sponsored by the University to leave a Japanese internment camp in the 1940s to attend classes here and had not been back to St. Louis since earning his degree in 1944.

Jan Amend, Ph.D., Dennis L. Barbour, Ph.D., Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. and more…

World-renowned artist and computer scientist John Maeda will serve as opening speaker for “Economies: Art + Architecture,” the first joint conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the National Council of Art Administrators.

The new WUSTL Family Network Web site — WUSTLfamily.net — provides an online forum where members of the WUSTL community can exchange information about parenting, events and the St. Louis area.

Philip R. Dodge, M.D., one of the founders of pediatric neurology and head of the Department of Pediatrics for 21 years, died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, of heart failure at Barnes-Jewish Extended Care in St. Louis. He was 86.

Photo by David KilperCindy Grimm, Ph.D., associate professor, is director of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering’s Media and Machines Laboratory. Projects range from computer graphics to computer vision to machine learning, which includes robotics.

The YouthBridge Community Foundation has renewed its partnership with the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies to fund the annual Social Entrepreneur and Innovation Competition (SEIC) with an initial $450,000 pledge over the next three years. YouthBridge has been a major sponsor of the competition for nonprofit, community-based ventures since its inception in 2005. The newly […]

At recent Board of Trustees meetings, the following faculty members were appointed with tenure, promoted with tenure or granted tenure effective July 1, 2009, unless otherwise noted. Appointment with tenure Robert Richard Kuehn, J.D., as professor of law William J. Maxwell, Ph.D., as associate professor of English in Arts & Sciences John Wiggs Patty, Ph.D., […]

Photo by Missouri Historical SocietySeveral quilters from Gee’s Bend, a rural Alabama community famous for its distinctive quilting style, will sing and talk about their craft for the program “The Women of Gee’s Bend” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, in January Hall, Room 110.

Courtesy PhotoFor some freshmen, service in the community started even before classes began. Arts & Sciences sophomore Tobi Lee (standing), a counselor with the Leadership Through Service program, guides freshman participants in the program as they prepare to paint murals at Hamilton Elementary School in St. Louis last month.