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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. […]

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 […]

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.

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.

Ernst K. Zinner, Ph.D., research professor of physics and of earth and planetary sciences, both in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis, will participate in the AAAS “Exploring a Dusty Cosmos” press briefing at 8 a.m. Central Time Monday, Feb. 20, in Room 274, second floor, America’s Center. Zinner is presenting in the 9 a.m. symposium “Stardust: Solar System Birth and Death.” The title of his talk is “Stardust in the Laboratory.”

Science Outreach connects the resources of Washington University to K-12 teachers, students, and families. Our goal is to improve learning in math and science through hands-on, investigative teaching methods. We place priority on working with neighboring school districts in underserved communities. Many of our programs are national models for teacher professional development. Science Outreach programs […]

On February 17, Heuser speaks on “Imaging activities inside living cells by quick-freezing and electron microscopy.” The presentation is part of a session called “Frontiers in biological imaging.” The session runs from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. John Heuser, professor of cell biology and biophysics, pioneered a technique for imaging cells and molecules in the […]

(On February 19, Woolsey will be a panelist on “Linking the community to scientific resources in natural areas.” The presentation is part of a session called “It takes a village: Partnering schools with the community to raise future chiefs.” The session runs from 10:30 a.m. to noon.) In his more than three decades as a […]

(On February 19, Easter speaks on “Maintaining partnerships for health sciences community outreach.” The presentation is part of a session that runs from 1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.) In 2003, Carla Easter was chosen as director of the Genome Sequencing Center Outreach Initiative at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is responsible […]

On February 17, Anderson speaks on “Education in imaging sciences: The next frontier.” The presentation is part of a session called “Frontiers in biological imaging: From cells to humans.” The session runs from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Carolyn Anderson, associate professor of radiology and of molecular biology and pharmacology, is implementing the first U.S. […]