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For the love of WashU

Marissa Hockfield, AB ’01, interviews prospective students for the Alumni and Parents Admission Program. Here, she is pictured with her husband, Josh Steinfeld, AB ’01. (Courtesy photo)

Alumna Marissa Hockfield has recruited and interviewed talented students for 15 years.

Fall, families and football

Alumni, students, parents and friends watch the football Bears square off against the Case Western Reserve University Spartans during Fall Festival. (Joe Angeles/Washington University)

The Washington University Alumni Association welcomed more than 1,000 alumni, parents, students and friends to Fall Festival on Oct. 29, 2016.

Campus & Community

Obituary: Mary Merritt Sale, professor emerita, 87

Mary Merritt Sale, professor emerita in classics and comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, died under hospice care at her home in Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 8, 2017, from complications of autoimmune disease. She was 87.

Humanities & Society

What 100,000-year-old human skulls are teaching us

Virtual reconstructions of the Xuchang 1 and 2 human crania, superimposed on the archeological site where they were discovered.

Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in eastern Eurasia. Securely dated to about 100,000 years ago, the Xuchang fossils present a mosaic of features.

Kemper Art Museum seeks summer interns

The Kemper Art Museum is accepting applications from students interested in its paid Internship to Promote and Encourage Diversity in the Museum Profession. Applications are due April 7.

Van Essen honored by Cognitive Neuroscience Society

David C. Van Essen, PhD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is being awarded the George A. Miller Prize for distinguished scholarship by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Arts & Culture

Chancellor’s Concert March 3

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Washington University Choirs will join forces March 3 for the 2017 Chancellor’s Concert, featuring music of Franz Schubert and Giovanni Bottesini.

Free vehicle inspections for employees, students Saturday

The university’s Police and Parking Services departments, in partnership with Hartmann’s Towing, once again will sponsor free travelers’ vehicle inspections for students, faculty and staff from noon-2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 4, in the lower level of Millbrook Garage.

Science & Technology

How molecular function affects high blood pressure, other diseases

By changing one small portion of a stimulus that influences part of one molecule’s function, engineers and researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have opened the door for more insight into how the molecule is associated with high blood pressure, autism and movement disorders.

Campus & Community

Washington People: William Hawkins

William Hawkins, MD, never met the man who helped inspire him to become a cancer surgeon and researcher. Hawkins was born six months after his grandfather Gabriel Jooris, an artist and art restorer, died of the disease. But his and other losses guided Hawkins’ career path.