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.
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.
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.
Helping rebuild Nepal after an earthquake
In 2014, Marla Borkson volunteered in Nepal for five months. When an earthquake hit in April 2015 while she was in the middle of her 1L year at Washington University, Borkson knew she had to act. She spent her summer in Nepal helping citizens in rural Nepal get health treatments.