When you think “research,” you probably imagine a bunch of students in long white coats mixing substances in test tubes. When English professor Joseph Loewenstein thinks “research,” it’s a little different.

Do you remember your first impression of Washington University? If you walked through Brookings anytime in the past few years and Delise Le Pool sat behind the desk at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, chances are it was a good one.

You may know him as “that bald guy in the blue suit” or “the Hitzeman mailman,” but long before he took our I.D.’s and handed us our packages, Kevin Simon was the drummer for a band that played venues across the country.

To understand how dynamic a person Mrs. Wrighton is, one only has to look back on her careers. Mrs. Wrighton helps students get acquainted with both the city and Wash. U. through the program she started, Home Plate.

It took a while for her to figure it out, but Professor Melanie Blackwell knew that her olive farm could not stay around for long.