An entrepreneur who has helped thousands of people in poverty-stricken countries throughout Africa says she couldn’t have done it without the help of students and professors at Washington University. The Blessing Basket Project bestows its annual World Changer award on WUSTL. Video history and thank you from artisans in Africa included.
Washington University students create new, innovative ways to serve others, both near and far. Through the Social Change Grants program, the university invests in these young social entrepreneurs, helping them fulfill the promise of bringing change to the world.
In Absence of Closure, Gustav Schonfeld, MD, the Samuel E. Schechter Professor of Medicine, recounts an amazing life journey, from a happy childhood in Munkacs, to the horrors of Auschwitz, to a long-term career at the university.
Architecture and business alumna Leigh Stringer works on and writes about sustainable strategies for the workplace. Although the greening of work and life is slow, it’s the “right thing to do,” she says.
Alumnus Merrill Brown, a master at straddling old world media and new technology, promotes innovative strategies for how journalism can survive in the digital age.
As director of Defense Research & Engineering, alumnus Zachary Lemnios oversees technological developments that protect our country, from soldiers in the field to attacks in cyberspace.
