Author: Leslie Gibson McCarthy

WUSTL sports update for week of March 8, 2010.

At the spring meeting of the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton reported on a number of recent developments on the Medical, Danforth and North campuses. Trustees also heard special reports from leading medical faculty on several cutting-edge research and clinical projects.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams are headed to the NCAA Division III tournament, which begins this weekend for both squads. The men begin at home as hosts of the first two rounds, while the women travel to Crestview Hills, Ky., to begin their postseason play.

Sports update for the week of Feb. 22.

OUTlaw, the student- run LGBT awareness, advocacy, support, and social group at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, will host “Queer in the Midwest,” the annual Midwest LGBT law conference Feb. 25-27

Medieval religious historian and scholar Caroline Walker Bynum, Ph.D., will give the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities lecture as part of the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, in the Women’s Building Lounge. Bynum’s talk, “Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles and Their Theorists,” will focus on the era between 1150 and 1550 when many Christians in western Europe made pilgrimages to venerate material objects that allegedly erupted into animation.

Four architecture professors from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are part of two teams that have reached the second round of an international competition to reshape the grounds surrounding St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch.

Winners of the first Olin Sustainability Case Competition to help alleviate campus parking issues, “Team 29,” celebrate with a trophy and the $5,000 prize that accompanied it Feb. 12. Their proposal detailed reducing the need for more campus parking spaces by promoting increased use of green transportation alternatives.

Sports update Feb. 15

Geoff Marcy, popular “planet hunter” and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the Ferguson Lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, in Graham Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.