Empowerment for everyone​​

Empowerment for everyone​​

Alumna Laura E. Knights has always been driven to help people and serve her community, a lesson instilled first by her parents and reinforced at Washington University, where Knights was an Ervin Scholar and counted the late Dean James E. McLeod among her mentors.
Engineering skills in a health-care world

Engineering skills in a health-care world

Alumna Alice Ndikumana, a technology consultant at Deloitte focusing on health care, finds herself on the front lines of one of the most hotly contested policy debates in U.S. history: health-care reform under the Affordable Care Act.
A man for all seasonings

A man for all seasonings

As the dining writer for The Times-Picayune and its website, NOLA.com, Todd Price, AB ’96, has become a well-known figure in the Big Easy’s bustling restaurant community.
Astrophysicist finds stories in the stars

Astrophysicist finds stories in the stars

The confluence of astrophysics and art meet in the studio of Annette Lee, MS ’08. An artist-scientist of Native ­American ­ancestry, Lee’s work has ­reconnected the Dakota and Ojibwe tribes with the star knowledge of her forebearers.