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Photo by Robert BostonJacques Baenziger prospers on paths less taken in education and research.

Courtesy PhotoLuna Negra Dance Theater brings its unique form of dance to Edison Theatre at 8 p.m. Nov. 7 and 8 as part of the OVATIONS! series.

Award-winning writer and critic, Daniel Mendelsohn, will give this year’s annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture. His talk, “Finding ‘The Lost’: A Journey into the History, Family and Judaism,” will focus on his quest to unearth the stories of his family members who perished during World War II. In his 2006 best-selling memoir, “The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million” Mendelsohn tells the story of his grandfather’s brother, who stayed behind in Ukraine and was killed in the Holocaust after his siblings had emigrated to America.

It has been one year since the groundbreaking of the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University, and now the 11-story steel framework is on schedule to “top out” in December. The School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital plan to open the BJC Institute of Health in December 2009. The 700,000-square-foot BJC Institute of Health […]

The Alumni Association will commemorate Washington University’s founding at the annual Founders Day ceremony Saturday, Nov. 8, at the America’s Center.

The Latin American Studies program in Arts & Sciences is sponsoring the 2008 South by Midwest two-day conference called “Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America.” Free and open to the public, the conference will be held Nov. 7-8 at the Knight Center on the Danforth Campus. The conference will be an interdisciplinary gathering with participation of […]

Beginning this fall, the School of Engineering & Applied Science no longer will admit students for the bachelor of science degree in civil engineering and will not seek re-accreditation for the degree program when it expires in September 2013. The decision was made by the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Structural Engineering. The degree is […]

Photo by Kevin LowderSeniors Emily Rubenstein (left) and Jamie Hanley, members of the Delta Gamma sorority, lead the “morale dance” during Dance Marathon Oct. 25 in the Athletic Complex.

The School of Law will hold intersession courses Jan. 5-9, 2009, allowing upper-level students to take a one-unit short course in a subject that enriches their curriculum. Top attorneys, professors and other legal professionals will teach these classes. Intersession offerings include: “Chapter 11 Strategies for the Business Lawyer”; “Comparative Property and Tax Law: Select Topics, […]