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Robert Moses, one of the leading figures in the American civil rights movement, will give the Assembly Series lecture at 11 a.m. Wed., April 6 in Graham Chapel. The annual Martin Luther King memorial event, sponsored by the Association of Black Students, is free and open to the public. This is the keynote address for the “Documenting Change” symposium.

“An Evening in Paris” — well, actually in the Khorassan Ballroom of the Chase Park Plaza — is the theme of the 2005 Newman Gala, a fund-raising auction and dinner dance April 9 benefiting the Catholic Student Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The gala begins with cocktails and a silent auction at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.). The event also includes an oral auction and, following dinner, dancing to Arvell and Company, a seven-piece band performing Motown and other classics. The fund-raiser is considered a vital source of support for the center, whose mission is to form students intellectually, morally, socially and spiritually through education, service and a worshipping community.

Things have been changing around the Becker Library, and the Symposium on Managing Knowledge in the Digital Domain is an engaging event designed to inform WUSM faculty, staff and students of all that is new. The gathering, featuring food and door prizes, takes place 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. April 19 in the library atrium and King […]

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he worked on the frontiers of space research for more than four decades.

The event will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines, ranging from literature to music, theater, history and anthropology.

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The award funds the “Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry” program and is an extension of a five-year grant made in 1999.

Photo by Kevin LowderSenior Langley Snyder models a gown by classmate Caitilin Black for guest judge Susan Barrett at the recent “Gowns in the Gallery.”

A lost gem in the world of opera, Lee Hoiby’s adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play will be presented at 8 p.m. March 18-19.

Courtesy PhotoMario Castro and nurse Michelle Jenkerson visit with study patient Wil Klages and his mom, Peg Klages.Researchers went to children’s homes and analyzed dust and allergens to determine their role in the severity of infections.