Author: Neil Schoenherr

University Athletics is sponsoring a “Take a Kid to the Game” event for the Oct. 13 Homecoming football game at Francis Field against the University of Chicago. Kids 14 and under get in free with the purchase of a $5 adult ticket.

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Photo by David KilperBradley P. Stoner works at the interface of medicine, anthropology and public health

A little health information is not enough to help obese children get into better shape, according to a recent analysis. “Providing information is a necessary component, but it’s not sufficient,” said Denise Wilfley, Ph.D., lead author of the study and professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine and of psychology in Arts & Sciences.

Judy Pfaff, one of the most celebrated artists of her generation, is known for crafting large-scale installations that combine local materials with elements of painting, sculpture and architecture. Pfaff — a 1971 WUSTL graduate — will return to St. Louis Oct. 11 to discuss her work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Is theatre an effective tool for social change? What were the effects of sexual violence on African American women after the Civil War? What is the history of organic food in America? The answers to these questions and many more will be explored during the Fall 2007 Undergraduate Research Symposium, from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Sciences building.

Marxism in China, taboo images in Tibet and war, sex work and memory in 20th-century Japan will be among topics discussed as WUSTL welcomes the 56th annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs to the Danforth Campus Oct. 19-21. The conference is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program in Arts & Sciences.

Photo by David KilperLarry A.Taber, Ph.D., (left) the Dennis and Barbara Kessler Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Philip Bayly, Ph.D., the Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, employ a microindentation device to measure the mechanical properties of embryonic hearts and brains. The researchers are examining mechanical and developmental processes that occur in the folding of the brain’s surface, or cortex, which gives the higher mammalian brain more surface area (and more intellectual capacity) than a brain of comparable volume with a smooth surface.

The Danforth Campus parking lot on the south side of the Power Plant will be closed daily from 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Oct. 4-18 for roof and air conditioning replacement at the Power Plant.

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are finding common ground between the shaping of the brain and the heart during embryonic development. Larry A.Taber, Ph.D., the Dennis and Barbara Kessler Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Philip Bayly, Ph.D., the Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, are examining mechanical and developmental processes that occur in the folding of the brain’s surface, or cortex, which gives the higher mammalian brain more surface area (and hence more intellectual capacity) than a brain of comparable volume with a smooth surface.