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Washington University is home to many distinguished writers, and the Feb. 5 Assembly Series will feature three of them in a Writers Forum presenting the poetry of Mary Jo Bang and Carl Phillips, and the prose of Richard Watson. The reading, free and open to the public, will be held at 11 a.m. in Graham […]

Patricia Hill Collins, Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Sociology and Chair of the African American studies department at the University of Cincinnati will deliver the annual Chancellor’s Fellowship Lecture as part of the university’s Assembly Series. Hill’s talk will take place at 11 a.m., Jan. 29th. The lecture is free and open to the public […]

Carole Counihan, anthropologist and women’s studies expert, will discuss women and food at the Olin Conference lecture at 11 a.m. Wed, October 2. The lecture is part of the Washington University Assembly Series, which is free and open to the public. It will be held in Graham Chapel, located just north of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 […]

Philosopher of science John Beatty will deliver the Thomas Hall Lecture titled “Genetics, the Atomic Age and the Cold War” at 4 p.m. on Thurs., Sept. 26, as part of the university’s Assembly Series. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Rebstock Hall, Room 215, located just east […]

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who directed his paper’s coverage of September 11, and a “Ground Zero” volunteer will share the podium during a special Washington University Assembly Series event marking the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States. The event, which is the first lecture of the Assembly Series’ fall 2002 season, […]

The deadline for applications for the Bear Cub Fund is Sept. 1. The fund, which was founded to help support the development of new inventions, was established by the Office of Research to help University inventors attract investment interest. For more details, contact Tom Hagerty at 747-0926 or hagertyt@wustl.edu.

The patent is for a technique that protects crops from devastating viral diseases that currently threaten or harm many important food crops.

Fall highlights include prominent scientists and colloquia on the environment; many lectures are part of the Sesquicentennial celebration.

Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, best-selling author and foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, will discuss “What Kind of International Borders Will Exist in the 21st Century?” for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Sept. 17 in the Athletic Complex. Friedman’s lecture also is the Arts & Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture. Having won […]

The CMI will enable collaborators from across the University to make advances in materials research, eventually touching many aspects of daily life.