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Life in the time of COVID Snapshots of how one WashU family lived, worked and thrived in a year that threw us all off balance The Nussinov family — (from left) Maya, Tsitsi, Zohar and Ethan — walking their dog, Pi, in Clayton’s Oak Knoll Park. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) February 22, 2021 SHARE In 2020, so much about what we know to be normal came to a grinding halt for the Washington University in St. Louis community. One week in March, we’re looking ahead to a spring...

Bolton Shantay Bolton, vice president and deputy chief operating officer at Tulane University, has been appointed executive vice chancellor for administration and chief administrative officer at Washington University in St. Louis, effective July 1, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin. Bolton will succeed Henry S. Webber, who will formally transition to the newly created position of executive vice chancellor for civic affairs and strategic planning when Bolton assumes her new role. A St. Lo...

LeBlanc Chuck Finder, executive director of media relations at Washington University in St. Louis, has no formal medical training. But his decades of experiences as a journalist prepared him well for his role as a volunteer COVID-19 case investigator for Habif Health and Wellness Center.  “It can feel like an intrusive process, but it’s so important to get the complete picture,” said Finder, a former reporter and editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “It wasn’t enough to ask, ‘So...

January 6, 2021 SHARE Chancellor Andrew D. Martin (center) helps welcome new students and families Sept. 5 as they move in to the South 40 residence halls before the start of the fall 2020 semester. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln? Indeed, to celebrate 2020 seems absurd, even wrong — and yet, perhaps necessary. In 2020, members of the Washington University in St. Louis community made new discoveries and friendships; accomplishe...

Multi-spectrum artist DeJoneiro Jones focuses as vessel for young black works FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Multi-media artist De’Joneiro Jones, background, 46, of St. Louis, walks some of the 6-foot-by-6-foot panels of a 2020-styled public art mural for which he was commissioned at the South 40 Underpass on Washington University’s Danforth Campus in St. Louis. One of Jones’ five recruited mentees, Roland Burrow, forefront, paints a pyramid at the site of the mural, completed last summer unde...