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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is bringing together a distinguished group of scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers from across the country to help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system.

Thursday, Oct. 18 • Dept. of Music Lecture Series — “Demonstration of Shinnai Narrative Song” Friday, Oct. 19 • East Asian Studies Conference — Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Saturday, Oct. 20 • Physics Science Saturdays Lecture Series — “The Laws of Classical Physics Govern What Cardiologists See and Hear” Wednesday, Oct. 24 • Global & Transnational Feminisms Lecture Series — “The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe: Women, Nation and the Tyranny of History”

J. Dillon Brown, Ph.D., Bill Bubelis, Ph.D., Sudarshan Jayaraman, J. Lamar Pierce, Ph.D., And more…

Shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, a cooking accident damaged five large windows in the South 40’s Wohl Center, on the northwest corner of the second floor. The incident was caused by a portable tabletop stove that malfunctioned when a butane fuel canister sprang a leak.

Six WUSTL undergraduate students spent this past summer in the village of Andhra Pradesh, India, teaching English to high school students and conducting research projects. The trip, led by Glenn Stone, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and of environmental studies, both in Arts & Sciences, was the first for a WUSTL group.

WUSTL’s efforts to create a more sustainable campus were recognized earlier this month when the University was named one of 15 new “Blue Skyways Partners” by the Blue Skyways Collaborative, a collection of public and private entities working to reduce diesel and energy-related air emissions in the central United States.

Photo by Kevin LowderChancellor Mark S. Wrighton listens to senior Sarah Swinford speak about her internship with the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University during the fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct. 13 in the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Sciences Building.

Photo by David KilperFor Hebrew literature scholar Nancy Berg, providing the keynote speech last month at an international conference on “Sami Michael and Jewish Iraqi Literature” was validation of a scholarly path she chose nearly two decades ago when she began her academic career at Washington University.

Claude Bernard, Ph.D., Diane L. Damiano, Ph.D., Regina F. Frey, Ph.D., Neville Prendergast, And more…

This summer, Frank C.P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, led nine biomedical engineering students through a two-week international experience in China.