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At 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, the Washington University Symphony Orchestra will highlight a series of rarely heard works originally composed for Sarah Bernhardt, who commissioned and revived dozens of musical scores to accompany her plays.

Photo by Joe AngelesStephen F. Brauer (left), James M. McKelvey, Ph.D. (center), former dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Camilla T. Brauer tour the new engineering building on the Danforth Campus Oct. 30. The 150,875-square-foot building will be called Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Hall and is on schedule to be completed by spring 2010.

Dancer and choreographer Lynn Lesniak Needle, a former soloist with Nikolais Dance Theatre in New York, leads a master class in modern dance for the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.

In the summer of 1854, 127 people in or near Broad Street in the Solo district of London died of cholera. By talking to the residents of the area, the British physician John Snow identified the source of the outbreak as the public water pump on Broad Street. Snow’s spot map showing how deaths were […]

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Washington University will provide free 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccinations this week to current faculty, staff and students who are pregnant.

MEDIA ALERT FOR MONDAY, NOV. 16 The Work, Families and Public Policy Seminar Series Nobel laureate to discuss human inequality, its origins and solutions WHAT: Lecture: “Understanding the Sources of and Solutions to Human Inequality” WHEN: Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, Noon-1:15 pm WHO: James J. Heckman 2000 Nobel Laureate in Economics University of Chicago’s Henry […]

The Prevention Research Center (PRC) in St. Louis is launching a multinational research project focused on preventing the leading causes of death in Hispanics in the United States and Latin America.

*Princess of the Sun* (2007)Washington University’s Center for the Humanities and Program in Film & Media Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will host their Sixth Annual Children’s Film Symposium Saturday, Nov. 21. Titled “An Exploration of Children’s Films and Their Audiences,” the symposium is presented in conjunction with Cinema St. Louis and will feature five screenings as well as a Q&A with Michael Barrier, an animation and comics historian and author of The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney (2007).

The sixth annual GIS symposium, which takes place this year from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in Whitaker Hall Auditorium, will feature 21st-century versions of maps that helped 1854 doctors understand an outbreak of cholera in London.