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Going global

Mark Wrighton introduces then–UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the students of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy during a 2016 trip to the United Nations in New York. Photo by Joe Angeles

From the beginning of his tenure, Mark Wrighton set out to put Washington University and its students and faculty on the map.

Campus & Community

Bear believer

On Sept. 2, 2017, Anthony J. Azama, the John M. Schael Director of Athletics, and Chancellor Wrighton recognized all student-athletes from the previous year during halftime of a football game — an annual fall ritual. In turn, the athletes presented the chancellor with the trophy for WashU’s second-place finish in the Division III Learfield Directors’ Cup standings. (James Byard/WUSTL Photos)

The Washington University athletics program has many fans, but none bigger than Mark Wrighton.

Campus & Community

On a personal note

Mark Wrighton and Risa Zwerling Wrighton reminisce in Harbison House. Photos by Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photos

Inspired by a selection of photos taken during their tenure, the Wrightons discuss their love story, life in Harbison House and thoughts on their legacy.

St. Louis Region

The Wrighton years by the numbers

Chancellor Wrighton at the 157th Commencement

A look at Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton’s impact on the university by the numbers.

Campus & Community

Notes from the right-hand man

Since 1997, Steve Givens worked with Chancellor Wrighton in multiple capacities: as assistant to the chancellor and assistant vice chancellor in the Chancellor’s Office, as associate vice chancellor in Public Affairs, and then back in the Chancellor’s Office as associate vice chancellor and chief of staff. (Washington University Archives)

What I learned from Mark Wrighton

Popular Culture

Morgan DeBaun, AB ’12, and three other WashU alumni founded Blavity, a news and entertainment website featuring stories from a black point of view. Today, DeBaun is CEO, using the varied skills she learned at WashU.

Campus & Community

Listening with purpose, leading with heart

Washington University in St. Louis administrators and faculty welcomed WUSTL alumni with children who are new students arriving for fall semester 2017 with a special luncheon at Holmes Lounge on the Danforth Campus in St. Louis Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. Photo by Sid Hastings / WUSTL Photos

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has relied on insights from alumni to help him guide the university. His partnership with the Alumni Board of Governors has provided an important forum for listening to and engaging with the university’s biggest champions: its graduates.

Art & Design

Interior designer takes spaces to the next level

Ryan Lawson, BFA '04, in his office in New York City. Photo by Seth Caplan

Ryan Lawson, BFA ’04, is an interior designer who as a student switched from studying architecture to art. He says that Chancellor Wrighton took a keen interest in his choice because Lawson was a student during the early planning phases of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Science & Technology

Of research and results

1.14.2019--James McCarter is a senior entrepreneur in residence at Cortex-based BioGenerator. He leads the research department of a new tech company that could drastically improve the lives of millions of people who suffer from Type 2 diabetes, the San Francisco-based Virta Health, as an online diabetes reversal clinic. Photos by Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photos

James McCarter, MD/PhD ’98, whose entrepreneurial spirit was nurtured while a grad student, has built his career on translational research.

Awards & Notables

Anthropology’s Alyanak named Volkswagen postdoctoral fellow

Oguz Alyanak, an anthropolog doctoral student at Washington University (2019)

Oguz Alyanak, an anthropology doctoral student in Arts & Sciences, has been selected for a Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities to support his research on the social lives of working-class Muslim men in Germany, France and other European countries.

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Going global

Bear believer

On a personal note

The Wrighton years by the numbers

Notes from the right-hand man

Pushing the culture forward

Listening with purpose, leading with heart

Interior designer takes spaces to the next level

Of research and results

Anthropology’s Alyanak named Volkswagen postdoctoral fellow