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Lights, camera, connection

The WashU Alumni Association helps alumni in the entertainment industry make professional connections in Los Angeles and New York. (Illustrations: Monica Duwel/WashU)

The WashU Entertainment Network helps alumni set the stage for success.

A magical creative outlet

Alongside his law practice, Justin Chavez, JD '18, writes about all things Disney on his blog and social media channels. (Photo: Nicole Craine)

Alumnus Justin Chavez thinks everyone should have a creative endeavor. For him, it all started with a trip to Disney World.

Campus & Community

From here to next

WashU Magazine checks in with Provost Beverly Wendland two-plus years after launching “Here and Next,” the bold, ambitious strategic plan that’s changing WashU in so many exciting ways.

Medicine & Health

A compassionate leader unties the knots of health care

KMarie King, MD '98, is department chair of surgery at Albany Medical Center. (Courtesy photo)

As a health-care executive, alumna KMarie King, MD, follows a set of principles: ‘Be kind, have integrity and the patient comes first.’

Literature

Writing without fear

Lydia Paar honed The Exit Is the Entrance: Essays on Escape while she was a student in WashU’s MFA Program. The book, a series of essays, is a road map on how to keep moving forward in the face of tremendous obstacles.

Alumna Lydia Paar weaves together personal tales of the American workplace while holding up a mirror to class mobility.

Art & Design

Crystal clear

As the first named curator at the renowned Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Jen Padgett is forging a distinctive career in a uniquely American art form.

Campus & Community

The drive

Rob King replaced a legend in the broadcast booth of the Pittsburgh Steelers, but he was ready for his moment because, as he says, he spent a lifetime preparing for it.

Alumnus Rob King, an English literature major at WashU, has reached the pinnacle of Pittsburgh broadcasting as play-by-play announcer for the Steelers.

Performing Arts

Novel approach: Performance artist types Elkin’s ‘The Dick Gibson Show’ live on KWUR

As part of his “100 Novels Project,” performance artist Tim Youd is retyping, word for word, “The Dick Gibson Show,” Stanley Elkin’s novel about a late-night disc jockey, on KWUR, WashU’s student radio station. Assuming the role as overnight DJ himself, Youd will type until 5 a.m. every morning until May 1. This will be the 84th novel Youd has typed in full.

Medicine

Alternative to hip replacement keeps aging athletes in the game

WashU Medicine surgeons led a long-term study that showed patients who received a hip resurfacing procedure maintained a higher level of athletic activity years after their surgery than those who received a total hip replacement.

Cancer Research

Brain pathway links inflammation to loss of motivation, energy in advanced cancer

Researchers at WashU Medicine described, in mice, a brain pathway that connects the loss of motivation characteristic of advanced cancer to cancer-related inflammation and identified opportunities to block this pathway and restore motivation.