Author: Susan Killenberg McGinn

“An Evening in Paris” — well, actually in the Khorassan Ballroom of the Chase Park Plaza — is the theme of the 2005 Newman Gala, a fund-raising auction and dinner dance April 9 benefiting the Catholic Student Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The gala begins with cocktails and a silent auction at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.). The event also includes an oral auction and, following dinner, dancing to Arvell and Company, a seven-piece band performing Motown and other classics. The fund-raiser is considered a vital source of support for the center, whose mission is to form students intellectually, morally, socially and spiritually through education, service and a worshipping community.

The former House majority and minority leader and two-time presidential candidate will also receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.

Will is one of the world’s leading experts in using experimental and observational data to explain Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

They are being recognized for their exceptional accomplishments in science, engineering and educational outreach furthering understanding of the sciences.

John Bowen doing fieldwork in Sumatra, Indonesia, in the late 1970s.Despite suffering large loss of life and devastation of cities and villages from the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami, Aceh province in Indonesia can rebuild. And at the same time, the United States can burnish its image among Indonesians — tarnished over the invasion of Iraq — by supporting Indonesian volunteer groups in the rebuilding process, says a sociocultural anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis who lived in Aceh for five years and has studied its people and culture since 1978.

He was a professor of English and of Religious Studies in Arts & Sciences for nearly 40 years.

A memorial service for David Hadas, Ph.D., a professor of English and of Religious Studies in Arts & Sciences for nearly 40 years, will be at 11 a.m. Feb. 5 in Graham Chapel.

Undergraduate tuition at Washington University in St. Louis will total $31,100 for the 2005-06 academic year — a $1,400 (4.7 percent) increase over the 2004-05 academic year. The required student activity fee will total $311, and the student health fee will be $631. The announcement was made by Barbara A. Feiner, vice chancellor for finance. Room-and-board charges for 2005-06 will be $10,754, an increase of $462 (4.5 percent) over the current year’s charges of $10,292 for the full meal plan and newer student housing.

Undergraduate tuition will total $31,100 for the 2005-06 academic year — a $1,400 (4.7 percent) increase over the 2004-05 academic year. The required student activity fee will total $311, and the student health fee will be $631. The announcement was made by Barbara A. Feiner, vice chancellor for finance. Room-and-board charges for 2005-06 will be […]

A Pulitzer Prize-winner and the nation’s first female poet laureate, she died Dec. 1 of bone cancer at her home in University City.