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Faculty members are being sought to join the Faculty Associates Program, sponsored by the Office of Residential Life. The program is designed to provide opportunities for faculty-student interaction outside the classroom setting. Associates are faculty members who agree to work with resident advisers (RAs) and a floor of about 50 first-year students in a residential […]

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present a “Young Choreographers Showcase” April 2-4 in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio in Mallinckrodt Student Center. The lineup will feature an eclectic collection of works by eight student choreographers from the PAD’s Dance Program. All works were selected by a jury of dance faculty. Styles […]

She will address “Bad Luck and Sadness Genes in Depression” at 9 a.m. April 6.

Accomplished poet and playwright Ntozake Shange will deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. April 8 in Graham Chapel. Shange is best known for her unique “choreopoem” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, published in 1975. Considered radical at the time for […]

Elliot C. Nelson led a study examining genetic influences on blackouts in general and on the incidence of having three or more of them in a year. More medical articles

So just how does a person with a background in music come to play a role in helping determine who attends the University? For John A. Berg, associate vice chancellor for undergraduate admissions, it was a circuitous route indeed. Born in New York but raised in St. Louis, Berg headed back east to pursue higher […]

In addition, Professor Emeritus Leslie J. Laskey will receive the 2004 Dean’s Medal in recognition of his exceptional dedication and advocacy.

The Office of Human Resources is offering retirement investment education seminars for faculty and staff conducted by consultants from TIAA-CREF and the Vanguard Group. At each session, there will be a discussion of basic investment choices and a review of simple strategies and concepts needed to make sound investment decisions. Topics are assessing your current […]

The admitted students, who received an open invitation to visit any time in late March or April, were chosen from almost 20,000 applications.

What are the origins of intolerance and prejudice? How are intolerance and prejudice similar, and how are they different? Are there certain people who are more intolerant or more prejudiced than others? How can the social problem of intolerance and prejudice be solved? These are among the questions to be addressed by a panel of […]