Newsroom Stories

Sports headlines for week of March 22.

The Energy Awareness Committee will host a brown bag lunch viewing and discussion of Dean Richard Smith’s famous “last” lecture, “Population, Politics and the Environment.” In a video from his final lecture before taking on duties as dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in 2008, Smith, PhD, discusses what is in store for humans in the 21st century as human population increases and the Earth’s resources remain finite.

After nine years, nine consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament and two setbacks in the national championship game, Washington University returned to the pinnacle of NCAA Division III women’s basketball, capturing the program’s fifth national championship with a 65-59 victory over Hope College March 20 in Bloomington, Ill.

A team led by physicist Ken Kelton, PhD, is building an electrostatic levitation chamber that will be installed at the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Kelton and his colleagues are particularly eager to see what the new instrument will tell them about glass transition, “the deepest and most interesting unsolved problem in solid-state research.”

The rise of film as a commercial medium in many ways parallels the rise of industrial production. For three days beginning Tuesday, March 23, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will explore three influential depictions of factory life with the Factory Film Festival. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break, the festival will include screenings of Modern Times (March 23), Norma Rae (March 24) and 24 City (March 25).

Ming You, MD, PhD, director of the Chemoprevention Program at the Siteman Cancer Center and professor of surgery, has been named the Mary Culver Distinguished Professor in Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

From traditional foods to lively entertainment, students at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work representing a variety of countries will offer a taste of their homelands at the 16th annual International Festival beginning at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 28, in Edison Theatre.

A letter to the Washington University community regarding the public transit initiative on the April 6 ballot, Proposition A.

The Max Kade Center on Contemporary German Literature will celebrate its 25th anniversary by hosting the 20th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature, “The Ethics of Literature: Contemporary German Writers,” Friday through Sunday, March 26-28, in Room 276 of the Danforth University Center.

Stroke experts at Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis are forming a collaborative group to ensure that clinicians share data to improve patient care and advance the development of new treatments.