The baseball team was one of 56 teams selected to
compete in the 2012 NCAA Division III baseball championship, and will
travel to Millington, Tenn., to compete in regional play
Wednesday through Sunday, May 16-20. Updates also included on women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis and track & field.
The university’s ‘Alma Mater’ is now played at noon weekdays from Graham Chapel, thanks to the efforts of rising sophomore Michael Byrne. This is just the first step in a plan to create a stronger sense of tradition on campus. Come graduation time, Byrne wants the song to resonate with the Class of 2015.
It was a night of glitz and glamour, as an audience of more than 200 gathered in Plaza Frontenac April 29, for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ 83rd annual Fashion Design Show. Titled Leaving a Legacy, the show was coordinated by Jennifer Ingram, the W. H. Smith Visiting Assistant Professor of Fashion, and featured dozens of students wearing scores of outfits by the Fashion Design Program’s nine seniors and ten juniors.
Sophia Hayes, associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, leaning toward an economics major when she stumbled into a quantum mechanics class and then a chemistry class with a collaborative research focus. Research projects were the hook, and “I crammed the chemistry major into my last two years,” Hayes says.
Mara MacMahon, who graduates May 18 with a bachelor’s of arts in biology in Arts & Sciences and of fine arts in communication design, continues a tradition that dates back to the Renaissance of seeking lifelike portrayals of the human body. But she goes way beyond the Renaissance masters, and is the Record’s Outstanding Graduate in Art from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
The College of Arts and University Libraries hosted the 15th annual open house of the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book May 1 in Walker Hall. During the open house, students display their work from the academic year and compete for the Nancy Award, which recognizes outstanding student achievement in book design.
Commencement week begins Monday, May 14, with a variety of celebrations and ceremonies designed to warmly send Washington University in St. Louis’ Class of 2012 out into the world. The week begins with the Chancellor’s Dinner to Honor Graduating
Seniors at 6 p.m. Monday, May 14 and culminates with the 151st Commencement Friday May 18.
Kranti V. Peddada, a rising junior in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, was among the approximately 230 WUSTL undergraduates from a wide variety of disciplines who presented their original research during the Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium April 28 in the Laboratory Sciences Building.
Cong (Lucy) Li is an advocate for innovation and entrepreneurship,
especially among graduate students. That’s just one of the reasons Li, who will receive a
doctorate in neurosciences from the Division of Biology and Biomedical
Sciences in Arts & Sciences May 18, was chosen the Record’s Outstanding Graduate in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Maranda Witherspoon has agreed to co-lead a group of community members and public health experts who are working to improve cancer prevention and care in medically underserved populations.
