Elevating the arts

Alumna Vicki Match Suna serves as senior vice president and vice dean for real estate development and facilities for NYU Langone Health, where she led the planning and implementation of the medical center’s 12-year campus transformation project. She brought such expertise to her advisory role on the east end transformation project, where she served on a committee that helped select an architectural firm and advised the design of Anabeth and John Weil Hall. (Courtesy photo)
Recently appointed to the university’s board of trustees, alumna Vicki Match Suna serves the university in numerous ways. She has particularly enjoyed being involved in the university’s recent capital project to transform the east end of the Danforth Campus.

TEDx WashU Max Klapow

Max Klapow is a William H. Danforth Scholar and research assistant in the Diversity Sciences Lab. The Class of 2021 Arts & Sciences student presented at TEDxWUSTL about radical empathy in April 2019.

A trusted adviser

Common Reading Program discussion
Chancellor Martin’s former students describe a mentor who was focused and insightful, as well as warm and thoughtful.

Arts & Sciences dean search committee appointed

Brookings Hall
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and Interim Provost Marion Crain have appointed a 16-member committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences. Aaron F. Bobick, dean of the McKelvey School of Engineering, will chair the search committee.

E-scooters banned from campus pathways, sidewalks

In an effort to support the safety of the Washington University in St. Louis community, electric scooters, motorized skateboards and hoverboards will no longer be permitted on Danforth Campus sidewalks and pathways. Also, university employees are prohibited from using scooters or other motorized transportation devices during work hours while conducting university business. 

Emergency communication system to be tested Sept. 16

Alertus beacon photo
Washington University will test its emergency communication system at noon Monday, Sept. 16. These tests ensure the university can effectively communicate with the community in an emergency. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather or another emergency is occurring at that time.

In India, riots have lasting impact on how loans are made

Riots that resulted in anywhere from 10 to 1,000-plus deaths in their hometowns ultimately influenced lending decisions among hundreds of loan managers in India — and the effect endured for decades, reveals a new study involving Washington University in St. Louis. The research shows a country’s ethnic fissures can create crevasses in its road to economic progress.