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The University’s new office building at 276 N. Skinker Blvd. opened June 16.

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Eliot Residence Hall was imploded June 21 to make way for a new residential hall that will retain the Eliot name.

40 years later, most Americans focus on MLK’s ‘dream,’ not the reality

Forty years ago this month, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.Most Americans are familiar with the “I have a dream” passage of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous public address. But most have forgotten his admonishments, his criticism of America and the pressures he brought to bear through his message delivered on that sweltering August day 40 years ago, says a civil rights historian at Washington University in St. Louis. “Too often, that part of his speech is ignored, subsumed to the tranquil tones of ‘I have a dream …,'” says Leslie Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and of African and Afro-American studies, both in Arts & Sciences. For that reason, Brown says, four decades after the March on Washington and King’s renowned “I Have a Dream” speech, that dream is still not realized.

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Henry Roediger, Ph.D., Janice M. Huss, Ph.D., Kevin D. Moeller, Ph.D., Glenn D. Stone, Ph.D., Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., Brian N. Finck, Ph.D., Amy V. Walker, Ph.D., Tzyh-Jong Tarn, D.Sc., Muthayyah Srinivasan, Bruce Fegley, Ph.D., Jonathan B. Losos, Ph.D., Tamara Hershey, Ph.D., Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., Gabriel Alejandro de Erausquin, M.D., Ph.D., Glenn C. Conroy, Ph.D., Carlos F. Suarez, M.D., Rebecca Treiman, Ph.D., Jeffrey M. Zacks, Ph.D., Lawrence M. Lewis, M.D., and J. William Harbour, M.D.,

Summer Writers Institute to be held June 16-27

Workshops will be held weekdays from 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. The teachers — John Dalton in fiction, Ruth Ellen Kocher in poetry and Rockwell Gray in creative nonfiction — will provide both instruction in the genre and constructive criticism of participants’ work.

Campus Authors: Michael A. Grayson

Measuring Mass: From Positive Rays to Proteins explains the benefits and processes of mass spectrometry to the general public.

Staff Day fun

The Spin Docs celebrate their victory at the Staff Day softball tournament.
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