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Photo by Mary ButkusMark S. Wrighton spoke on several issues of importance to all members of the University community at a “Chat With The Chancellor.”

James W. Ellis, the National Law Journal’s 2002 Lawyer of the Year, will deliver the keynote address during the School of Law’s fourth annual access to equal justice conference, titled “Mental Health and the Law,” March 19 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Ellis, professor of law at the University of New […]

Sergei Khrushchev, a world-renowned speaker in international studies and son of the late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, will present a talk titled “Cuban Missile Crisis: The Russian Perspective” at 4 p.m. March 22 in Graham Chapel. Khrushchev writes extensively about the history of the Cold War and the turning points in the relationship between the […]

Photo by Mary ButkusNancy Morrow-Howell was installed as the first Pumphrey professor of social work March 9.

Photo by Mary ButkusThe WUSTL women’s basketball team beat Millikin University in the NCAA Tournament before falling to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Joy Williams, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will give a talk on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. April 15 in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Spring […]

As an antidote to being forced to cover themselves, being denied basic freedoms and living in fear of arrest, imprisonment and worse, they came together to read Nabokov, James, Fitzgerald and Austen. “They” were Azar Nafisi, an Iranian professor, and several of her brightest female students, who secretly met once a week to find solace […]

As part of the University’s Sesquicentennial celebration, the Cormorbidity and Addictions Center at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host “Advancing Social Work Research in Addictions and HIV” April 15-16. The conference will bring together leading scholars to examine addictions and HIV research from a social work perspective. Information gathered at this […]

Photo by Bob BostonNational and local legislative staff members recently visited the Medical Campus to learn why academic medical centers are unique.

Patrick Juelich won the the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarship; Gillian Galford received the organization’s leadership award.