StoryCorps captures stories from cancer survivors and their children

Cancer survivor Kathy Ferrara and daughter Natalie continue their dialogue after participating in StoryCorps, a national oral history and research project.Cancer is a difficult diagnosis to acknowledge — especially what a parent with can-cer must explain. A StoryCorps project captures the emotional stories of survivors and may help others to say what must be said.

Washington University surgeon is also inventor

Richard Chole, a surgeon and chairman of otolaryngology, is also an inventor whose garage creations include a wristband warning system to prevent wrong-site surgeries and a surgical device that allows less invasive surgery on pituitary tumors.

Arts & Sciences new faculty in 2009

The new faculty who were introduced at the Arts & Sciences annual faculty reception are: Roshan Abraham, Ph.D., assistant professor, classics and religious studies; William Acree, Ph.D., assistant professor, Romance languages and literatures; Pannill Camp, Ph.D., assistant professor, performing arts; Shefali Chandra, Ph.D., assistant professor, history and international and area studies; Frederick Eberhardt, assistant professor, […]

Ragtime

 Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo ServicesShaun Hudson as Coalhouse Walker, Jr., and Renae Adams as Mother  Ragtime, Terrence McNally’s acclaimed adaptation of the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, is a sweeping and ambitious tale of race, class and the promise of America at the dawn of the 20th century. It is also a tremendously demanding theatrical production, requiring almost 50 actors and at least a dozen musicians. Indeed, Ragtime is so logistically challenging — more than 150 different costumes must be designed and sewn — that it virtually precludes staging by all but the largest of regional theaters. Yet next month, The Black Rep will join forces with the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences to present this Tony Award-winning musical as the fall Mainstage production.

Assembly Series/Leadership Lecture Series features Jason Green on the road from Washington University to the White House

Alumnus Jason Green, who now serves as Deputy Associate General Counsel to President Barack Obama, will be back on campus to give an Assembly Series/Leadership Lecture Series presentation at 4 p.m. Friday, October 9 in Wilson Hall Room 214. His talk is free and open to the public. Green is returning to Washington University to participate in a Student Union reunion from October 9 – 11

Law’s Public Interest Law & Policy series begins with Matthew Coles

The School of Law’s 12th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 30, with nationally prominent speaker Matthew Coles, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project in New York. The yearlong series Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers brings to WUSTL […]

Labov to discuss inquiry-based learning

A four-part seminar series on inquiry-based methods of science teaching begins at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, with Jay Labov, Ph.D., a senior staff member of the National Research Council’s Center for Education.
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