Author: Neil Schoenherr

The Code of Conduct governs “members of the University community”: employees, volunteers and those who do business with the University. It states the ethical and legal standards that guide their decisions and actions as community members. The Code of Conduct is revised from time to time. An updated version of the code is available online […]

Photo by Lois IngramWilliam Julius Wilson, Ph.D. (second from right), director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at Harvard University’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, talks with (from left) Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton; Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine; and Will Ross, M.D., associate dean for diversity, director of the Office of Diversity Programs and associate professor of medicine, after Wilson gave the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration lecture Jan. 19 in the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

Men’s basketball coach Mark Edwards, men’s tennis coach Roger Follmer and volleyball coach Rich Luenemann were honored at the 51st Annual Baseball Writers’ Association of America Dinner Jan. 19 in downtown St. Louis. The winter event annually honors the St. Louis Cardinals and other accomplished major league players but also gives an award for achievement […]

Those looking to learn more about President Barack Obama and gain an introduction to African-American writing are advised to check out two new books, “Best African American Fiction: 2009” and “Best African American Essays: 2009.”

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.WUSTL students Jasmine Taylor, Erin Moss, Jeff Nelson and Bianca Jackson cheer at the Danforth University Center after President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech Jan. 20.

Photo by Kevin LowderArchitecture graduate students work on a shelter on the Ruth Park Golf Course in University City, a class project in a fall graduate design/build studio led by Carl Safe, professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Graduate students from all fields in the humanities and social sciences are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship and two graduate student dissertation fellowships awarded to the Center for the Humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University will host Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish- American architect. The exhibit will remain on view at the Kemper Museum through April 27. A second exhibition, On the Riverfront: St. Louis and the Gateway Arch, highlights the history of the St. Louis waterfront and includes selected submissions from the 1947 competition, including Saarinen’s own entry, subsequent drawings and models, on view in Steinberg Hall through March 9.

Theodore brings experimental folk to the Kemper Art Museum on Feb. 27.The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will launch its spring 2009 concert series, “Kemper Presents,” on Feb. 27 with Theodore, a foursome that creates a rootsy, familiar yet completely fresh sound with instruments as diverse as the trombone, glockenspiel, accordion and lap steel guitar.

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