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?The eighth annual African Film Festival at WUSTL will feature award-winning African films and filmmakers Friday through Sunday, March 22-24. Organizers say the festival exposes the St. Louis community to “African stories as told by Africans,” helping to dispel stereotypes about Africa. All film showings, which are free and open to the public, take place in Brown Hall, Room 100.?
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March 15 was Match Day for 120 soon-to-be physicians in this year’s School of Medicine graduating class. They and medical students across the country learned where they will do their residency training. Shown are students Ignacio Becerra-Licha and Somalee Banerjee after they learned where their residencies will take them.
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Mike Parker Pearson’s research team spent six years on a comprehensive dig in and around Stonehenge, emerging with surprising discoveries and new theories on the origins and purpose of the prehistoric ruins. He will share some of these findings in his Assembly Series lecture, “Stonehenge: New Discoveries,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium.
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WUSTL researchers left a dish for a different experiment in the refrigerator and made a startling discovery. Headed by Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, the team unexpectedly found the mechanism by which tiny single molecules spontaneously grow into centimeter-long microtubes. This novel approach of making nano- and microstructures and devices could have applications in electronics, optics and biomedicine.
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Brett skips class. He disappears for hours at a time. He nurses a disturbing secret: Brett is an Elvis impersonator. Welcome to “If I Were You” and Other Elvis Presley Songs, an original play by senior Leah Barsanti, and winner of the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition. The play runs this Thursday through Saturday, March 21-23.
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