‘Dem Bones’
Photo by Robert BostonA bone-density screening was a recent initiative of the Community Outreach Program of the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science.
Campus Watch
The following incidents were reported to University Police Feb. 8-14. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Fraud alert: University Police has recently noted […]
Olin School tabs Bouffides as M.B.A. assistant dean
He has spent the past eight years at USC’s business school, where he was the admission director for the school’s executive and part-time M.B.A. programs.
Of note
Rich O’Donnell,
Steven L. Teitelbaum, M.D.,
Eric Mumford, Ph.D.,
and more…
Campus Authors: Carol Diaz-Granados, Ph.D.
The research associate and lecturer in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences edited The Rock-Art of Eastern North America: Capturing Images and Insight.
Washington University Symphony Orchestra in concert Feb. 19
The 70-plus-member orchestra will perform music of Ernest Bloch, Peter I. Tchaikovsky and Gay Holmes Spears at 3 p.m. Feb. 19 in Graham Chapel.
Fighting the good fight
Paul J. Goodfellow, Ph.D., is in a professional war with cancer. The professor of genetics, surgery, and of obstetrics and gynecology brings an arsenal of knowledge and passion to his research battle with the formidable adversary. “Disease is competition. In the case of cancer, it’s like Darwinian evolution: The best genetic material wins,” Goodfellow says. […]
Arnold Schönberg
SYMPOSIUM: “Schönberg and the Blaue Reiter Almanac” Participants: • Gerald N. Izenberg, Ph.D., professor of history in Arts & Sciences, “Painting Like Music: How Schönberg’s Atonalism Midwifed Kandinsky’s Abstraction” • Bonny Hough Miller, Ph.D., pianist and historian, “Sounding the Soul: Schönberg, Herzgewächse and the Blaue Reiter Almanac” Time: 2:30 to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24 […]
Spring social work lecture series under way Feb. 23
The first lecture, addressing child welfare reform and child welfare services, will be presented by Richard Barth of the University of North Carolina on Feb. 23.
Synapse Productions brings Animal Farm: The Puppet Musical to Edison Theatre March 10-11
Courtesy photo*Animal Farm: The Puppet Musical*”All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Such is the satiric lesson of Animal Farm, George Orwell’s cautionary parable about the uses and abuses of power. In March, New York’s acclaimed Synapse Productions will treat St. Louis audiences to Animal Farm: The Puppet Musical. This witty and visually stunning production — based on a musical adaptation by famed British director Peter Hall — re-imagines Orwell’s novel with all the wonder and grotesquerie of a childhood fairy tale.
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