‘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 […]

Of note

Rich O’Donnell, Steven L. Teitelbaum, M.D., Eric Mumford, Ph.D., and more…

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 […]

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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