New hire, promotions in Campus Life

A new hire and two promotions have taken place in Campus Life. Mike Hayes has been hired as executive director of Campus Life and director of Greek Life. Leslie Heusted has been promoted to director of the Danforth University Center. Working closely with Hayes, Julia Macias Garcia has been promoted to assistant director of Campus Life and assistant dean in the College of Arts & Sciences.

A pinch of prevention

Photo by Joe AngelesArts & Sciences graduate student Kelly Theim gets a seasonal flu shot from Stephanie Hultz at the Habif Health & Wellness Center last week. Seasonal flu shots are available now to students at the Habif Center; H1N1 shots also will be distributed to students when the vaccine becomes available.

Obituary: Wolverson, 91

Sue Wolverson, lecturer at University College from 1976-1982, part-time lecturer in engineering from 1982-1990, and part-time lecturer in the School of Technology and Information Management from 1986-1990, died Sept. 5, 2009, at her home in Webster Groves, Mo. She was 91.

Martin K. Sneider, adjunct professor of marketing

“Retailing is the ultimate Darwinian business,” says Martin K. Sneider, adjunct professor of marketing at Olin Business School. Sneider is author of a new memoir recounting his career in retail. The self-published “Toast: How a Leading Retailer Went from Toast of the Town to Just Plain Toast,” chronicles the rise and fall of Edison Brothers Stores.

Constitution panel to discuss upcoming Supreme Court cases

In honor of Constitution Day, the American Constitution Society (ACS) at the School of Law will present a panel discussion on upcoming high-profile Supreme Court cases at noon Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The panel, moderated by Ronald Levin, J.D., the Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law, will feature […]

Women’s golf wins 22-team invitational

The women’s golf team shot a school-record 306 to capture the 2009 Wartburg Fall Invitational Sept. 13 in Waverly, Iowa. In just its second year as a varsity program, the program opened eyes last weekend as the Bears knocked off two teams ranked in the preseason top 20 poll. After shooting a 325 in the […]

Off-campus safety seminar Sept. 17

Quadrangle Housing will host its annual Neighborhood Safety Meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Regional Arts Commission building located at 6128 Delmar Blvd., across from The Pageant.

First, service

Photo by Mary ButkusMore than 1,000 WUSTL freshmen started the academic year giving back to their new community — like this group at Dewey Elementary in St. Louis — volunteering to help clean and paint 12 St. Louis-area schools as part of the 11th annual Service First event Sept. 5.

‘Laskey Landscape’

Photo by David KilperRoberto Jaime Deseda (left), a student in the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, chats with Leslie J. Laskey, professor emeritus of architecture, while two students relax in the “Laskey Landscape,” a large construction made of wood and metal located in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Dula Foundation Central Courtyard.

Closing the gap

Photo by David KilperMatthew W. Kreuter, Ph.D., founder and director of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s Health Communication Research Laboratory, brings health information to key communities.