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Fostering lifelong connections

A new network model helps alumni, parents and friends stay connected to and engaged with the university.

Noémi and Michael Neidorff: Working to make life better

Michael and Noémi Neidorff are two of St. Louis’ most dedicated citizens. Their commitment and outreach make the city and the organizations they engage with better for all.

The misunderstood social safety net

Mark Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare in the Brown School

Few topics are more misunderstood than the U.S. social safety net. As Congress considers making significant changes and cuts to these programs during the next few months, it is time to splash a dose of hard reality onto this subject.

WashU alumna named Schwarzman Scholar

Lingyu Zhou, a Washington University in St. Louis School of Law alumna, has been awarded a highly selective 2019 Schwarzman Scholarship for graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing. A student and another alum were semifinalists.

Engineering

Herby goes to China

Five students from WashU’s school of Engineering & Applied Science put their technical chops to the test in China this summer when they competed in the Silk Road Robotics competition.

Students

WashU Musical Revue performs in China

Last May, group of WashU students performed concerts in Beijing and Shanghai with Provost Holden Thorp, bringing with them a message of togetherness and community.

Advancement

Volunteer Spotlight: Tim Hsu, LLM ’01, JD ’04 and David Ma, PhD ’09

Tim Hsu and David Ma met while graduate students at Washington University through the university’s Taiwanese Graduate Student Association. After they graduated, they wanted to find a way to recreate the camaraderie they’d known in school and created the WashU Alumni Club in Taiwan in 2012.

Campus & Community

The View From Here 12.4.17

med faculty discuss research with congressman

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Campus & Community

Trustees discuss higher education trends, chancellor search; elect new board member

The Dec. 1 meeting of the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees focused on trends in higher education and the search for a new chancellor, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The board also elected a new trustee, Albert Yuk Keung Ip, BS ’73, executive director and chief executive officer of Langham Hospitality Investments Limited in Hong Kong.

Campus & Community

Obituary: John A. Pierce, former director of pulmonary and critical care, 92

John A. (Jack) Pierce, MD, emeritus professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, died Nov. 24 in St. Louis following a long battle with cancer. Pierce came to the university in 1967 as the first director of the Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.