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Napoleon Bonaparte, the notoriously “short” French emperor, may have stood only 5 feet 6, but being a powerful military and political leader probably made him feel much taller, suggests a new study by Michelle M. Duguid, PhD, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Olin Business School.
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Marsha Cann (left) and Ron Himes perform during the 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration in Graham Chapel Jan. 16. Himes, an alumnus and founder and producing director of The Black Rep, received the Rosa L. Parks Award for Meritorious Service to the Community. The event also honored the late James E. McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.
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When it comes to communication in the brain, more is usually better. But now School of Medicine scientists, including Maurizio Corbetta, MD, have linked increased communication in a network of brain regions to more severe mental impairment in patients with early-stage multiple sclerosis.
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Maurice Ravel’s Trio in A minor is among the most technically difficult works in the piano trio repertoire. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Trio in B-flat major, opus 97, is considered a masterpiece of the form. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan 22, WUSTL’s Eliot Trio will present both, along with Alexander Zemlinsky Trio in D minor, opus 3, at a concert in Holmes Lounge.
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Experts will address the idea of mercy during a Saturday Master of Liberal Arts Seminar Series throughout February. Topics range from mercy in sexuality debates to mercy in the practice of medicine. Now in its 31st year, the popular MLA series annually addresses a common theme from a variety of backgrounds.
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Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly at WUSTL Jan. 23-April 16. On Jan. 23, Kelly Bishop, PhD, assistant professor of economics in Arts & Sciences, will speak about “Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Estimating Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products without Instrumental Variables.”
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