Author: Liam Otten

The Center for the Humanities and the Program in Film and Media Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will host the Third Annual Children’s Film Symposium April 20-21 featuring three screenings and two lectures.

The Eliot Trio will perform piano trios by Franz Joseph Haydn, Camille Saint-Saëns and Johannes Brahms at 2:30 p.m. April 22 in the auditorium of Whitaker Hall.

Zeuler R. Lima, Ph.D., assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has won the 2007 Bruno Zevi Prize from the Bruno Zevi Foundation in Rome.

The Women’s Society of Washington University’s annual membership meeting April 11 took on an added poignancy as the retiring Harriet K. Switzer, Ph.D., secretary to the Board of Trustees since 1980 and University coordinator of the Women’s Society since 1986, was recognized.

Pamela A. Barr, senior purchasing representative in the Division of Hematology in the Department of Medicine, died Friday, April 6, 2007, at St. Anthony’s Hospice after a long battle with cancer. She was 54. More…

Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo ServicesBall gown by Lauren EdelsteinThe Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis will present The 78th Annual Fashion Design Show at Saint Louis Galleria Sunday, May 6. The fully choreographed, Paris-style extravaganza will feature more than 50 professional and volunteer models wearing more than 150 outfits created by 19 seniors and 12 juniors from the school’s fashion design program.

Photo by Kevin LowderPrintmaker Koichi Yamamoto, assistant professor of printmaking at Utah State University, conducts a printmaking lecture/demonstration for students and faculty in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Born in Osaka, Japan, Yamamoto is known for creating etchings and large-scale monoprints inspired by natural forms.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo Services Wedding gown by Yehua Yang Media photo downloads for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art’s 78th Annual Fashion Design Show, which takes place May 6 at Saint Louis Galleria.

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesZeuler LimaZeuler R. Lima, Ph.D., assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has won the 2007 Bruno Zevi Prize from the Bruno Zevi Foundation in Rome. Lima received the award for his extended essay “Towards Simple Architecture,” about the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis honored five outstanding architecture alumni at its 14th annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner March 29. The awards recognize architecture graduates who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision through their contributions to both the practice of architecture and the School.