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Educator, administrator and physicist Walter Massey, PhD, will deliver the inaugural James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture in Higher Education Tuesday, Oct. 2. His talk, titled “Liberal Arts: The Higgs Boson of Higher Education,” begins at 4 p.m. in Graham Chapel.
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Richard A. Loomis, PhD, associate professor of chemistry, received the David Hadas Teaching Award during the Arts & Sciences’ annual faculty reception Sept. 6. The award recognizes a tenured faculty member in Arts & Sciences who demonstrates commitment and excellence in teaching first-year undergraduates.
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New research suggests that a key immune cell may play a role in lung cancer susceptibility. Working in mice, Alexander Krupnick, MD, and colleagues found evidence that the genetic diversity in natural killer cells, which typically seek out and destroy tumor cells, contributes to whether or not the animals develop lung cancer.
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In drama as in life, there is what we say, and then there is what other people hear. On Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29, three young playwrights will put their words to the test as part of “The Hotch,” WUSTL’s annual A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.
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In Modern Life, her third book of poems, Matthea Harvey offers a whirling, riffing, buoyantly ironic take on post-9/11 America. At 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, Harvey, the Visiting Hurst Professor of Creative Writing in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work.
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5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27
“Energy and the Environment” panel discussion. Free and open to the public. Event details. Danforth University Center, Room 276. (314) 935-8628 or gephardtinstitute@wustl.edu.
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