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Collaboration Creates Innovative Fashion Line

Danielle Dankner, AB ’08, and Ashley Cook, BSBA ’08, founded ash&dans, a clothing and accessory line, featuring scarves and other embellished jersey pieces.

Campus & Community

Activist Empowers People with Disabilities

T.J. Hill, JD ’03, who has lifelong learning disabilities, strives to develop social policy for other people with disabilities through his career and civic activities.

Campus & Community

Animal Lover’s ‘Tails’ Promote Literacy, Pet Rescue

Ilene Fine, AB ’82, advocates for literacy and pet rescue through her books about her two adopted dogs, who serve in pet therapy programs at schools.

Campus & Community

FitzGibbons Lights up Iceland

Bill FitzGibbons, MFA ’78, designed a light sculpture installation in February 2010 for the opening of “Museum Night,” an annual visual arts night celebration in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Campus & Community

Bridging the Gap

The Alumni Association helps graduating seniors transition to young alumni; the 50th Reunion Class shines in class giving; alumna Michelle Purdy speaks about her university involvement; and more.

Arts & Culture

Kemper exhibit Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other opens Oct. 8

Brazilian conceptual artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates playful, ephemeral and often participatory artworks that blur distinctions between author and viewer, object and memory, permanence and temporality. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other, the artist’s first major midcareer survey. Covering a decade of work, the exhibition reveals a wide-ranging interdisciplinary practice that merges painting, photography, film, sculpture, installation and collaborative action.

Medicine & Health

Tradition of excellence

When Kerry Kornfeld, MD, PhD, says his life began at the School of Medicine, he means that literally.

New athletics website debuted Oct. 1

The Washington University in St. Louis Department of Athletics launched its new website Friday, Oct. 1. The website address will remain the same as the old site, bearsports.wustl.edu.

Media Advisory

WHAT: Today, the Washington University military care package group will surpass 5 tons of total donated goods mailed to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the group formed in March 2004. Boxes containing the fifth ton will be packed at WUSTL today by group members and members of local ROTC programs. WHO: The WUSTL military […]

Notables

Of note Joseph Batchelor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Drew Etheridge, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Andrew Kau, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology & Immunology; Michael Mahowald, MD, PhD, of the Department of Genetics; and Eric Tomko, PhD, of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; have been named […]