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For Cycles — a spring 2013 Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Commons course taught by Lindsey Stouffer, senior lecturer — students designed and built human-powered vehicles from discarded bicycles. They worked in collaboration with student mechanics involved with St. Louis Bicycle Works (Bworks).

The Washington University Travel Program continues to offer a broad array of international and national destinations, along with a cohort of lifelong lovers of learning.

Amy Locklear Hertel, MSW ’99, JD ’02, returns to North Carolina 15 years and two graduate degrees later (plus one on the way) to lead the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s American Indian Center.

Three Washington Univesity alumni — Fred Tsai, BSBA ’00; Michael Ch’ang, BSBA ’00; and Mark Yen, AB ’99 — visited the Great Wall of China last summer.

Clinton Global Initiative University students gathered at Washington University April 5–7 to fine-tune their plans for tackling some of society’s most urgent challenges.

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WUSTL researchers travel to remote, isolated, ­hostile ­Antarctica to conduct balloon-borne astronomy ­experiments. Their ultimate goal is to solve the mysteries of cosmic rays — the rain of charged particles from space falling ­continuously on Earth.

Top academic officer Macias steps down, will focus on educational technologies.

Washington University grads have the confidence to ­pursue their dreams — even if those dreams don’t quite mesh with their majors.