Author: Neil Schoenherr

Session musician, commercial recording engineer, live sound engineer, record producer, bestselling author and psychologist Daniel Levitin visits the WUSTL campus Wednesday, Oct. 8, in Graham Chapel for the Assembly Series. The lecture, originally slated for a 4 p.m. start on the Assembly Series calendar, has been moved up to an 11 a.m. start. Levitin’s talk, […]

Novelist Zachary Lazar, author of “Sway” (2008) and “Aaron Approximately” (1998), will read from his work 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. The talk — part of The Writing Program’s fall Reading Series — is free and open to the public and takes place in Duncker Hall, Room […]

“Media will swarm campus” is the headline this week in the student newspaper at Washington University in St. Louis where Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin are scheduled to kick off their much-anticipated vice presidential debate at 8 p.m. (CDT) Oct. 2, in the University’s Athletic Complex.

The event the University community has spent the past year preparing for has finally arrived. The vice presidential debate between Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin begins at 8 p.m. tonight, in the Field House in the Athletic Complex.

Though no scores are included in his published works, William Shakespeare frequently employed music in his plays, writing poems for new songs and adopting existing ballads. Numerous characters allude to then-popular tunes while composers such as Thomas Morley and Robert Johnson also contributed original compositions. Next week, the acclaimed period music trio Ensemble Chaconne, joined […]

The following incidents were reported to University Police Sept. 23-28. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Sept. 23 8:41 p.m. — A student […]

To provide around-the-clock care for cancer patients in need of urgent care, the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital will open a 24/7 Cancer Care Clinic inside BJH’s north campus in March 2009.

The eyes of the world are on WUSTL this week for the vice presidential debate, and the Record will cover it all. Look for expanded debate coverage here and in a special, 12-page full color print issue.

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The men’s soccer team (7-2) won its sixth consecutive game with a 1-0 road win Sept. 26 at NCAA Division II Truman State University. Junior John Hengel scored the game-winning goal, kicking in a rebound in the 85th minute. The score was Hengel’s fourth-straight game-winning goal and his team-leading sixth goal of the year. The […]