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Reinventing the Wheels

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).
Campus & Community

Home Again

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.
Campus & Community

Reunion at the Great Wall

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.
Science & Technology

Successful dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission

In June, a rover named Zoe set out into the Atacama Desert on the west coast of South America to test a suite of instruments intended for future missions to Mars under Mars-like conditions. One of the instruments aboard Zoe was a Raman spectrometer designed by a team led by Alian Wang of Washington University in St. Louis. A fragile lab instrument that was ruggidized to survive the desert, the Raman spectrometer is expected to fly on the 2020 Mars mission.
Arts & Culture

Erica Kochi of UNICEF Innovation Unit Aug. 29

As co-founder of the UNICEF Innovation Unit, Erica Kochi — one of Time magazine’s 100 “World’s Most Influential People” — leverages design and technology to solve some of the world’s most intractable problems. On Thursday, Aug. 29, Kochi will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts fall Public Lecture Series with a free talk in Steinberg Hall.

Washington People: Rick Larsen

Rick Larsen, WUSTL’s head athletic trainer, discusses injuries, The Game of Their Lives and 30 years on campus.