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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, […]

Rob Wild loves Washington University so much, he just couldn’t leave. At least not for long. Wild, a 1993 Arts & Sciences graduate, worked for a few years at the University of Wisconsin after graduating and is now back as an associate director in the Office of Residential Life. He could not be happier. “I […]

Prolific author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich will give the Olin Fellows Conference Lecture at 11 a.m. Oct. 1 in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series. The Olin Fellows Conference theme is “Walking the Poverty Line.” The lecture is free and open to the public; however, seating may be limited. Concerned and curious […]

Bass baritone Stephen Bryant will join forces with pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, for the Department of Music’s annual Liederabend at 3 p.m. Oct. 5 in the Gallery of Art’s Steinberg Auditorium. Literally translated as “evening of song,” “liederabend” is a German term referring to a recital given by a […]

Photo by Kevin LowderWUSTL administrators joined community members in participating in groundbreaking ceremonies for the University City Children’s Center.

The Campus Y’s annual Safe Trick-or-Treat will be held from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 29 in the South 40, and faculty and staff are encouraged to bring their children. Most of the residential colleges will participate. The free event provides an opportunity for St. Louis-area children to trick-or-treat in a safe environment. More than 275 children […]

The recipients of the second round of funds are Narasimhan Gautam, John W. Lockwood and Rosanne S. Naunheim.

James Herbert Williams thought he knew where he would spend his academic career. “I’m a western-U.S. kind of guy,” he says. Williams, Ph.D., the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity and associate dean for academic affairs in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, grew up in Magnolia, N.C., and Cleveland, […]

Photo by Mary ButkusFree flu shots were provided for active Hilltop Campus and West Campus faculty and staff members.

Stephen Murray, a leading authority on medieval art and architecture and founder of the Visual Media Center at Columbia University, will speak on “Medieval Architecture and the New Media: Representing and Creating Humanistic Content” at 6 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Gallery of Art. A reception for Murray will immediately follow the talk. A specialist […]