Two acclaimed Writing Program alumni return to campus
Kevin Prufer and Teddy Wayne, both alumni of The Writing Program in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will read from their work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 22. Prufer is the author of four books of poetry as well as editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing. Wayne (right) is the author of the forthcoming novel Kapitoil.
Faces of Hope: Community Counts
Community Counts was one of the featured projects at Faces of Hope, an annual celebration of civic engagement and community service April 8 at Whitaker Hall.
Non-profit community-based ventures vie for $155,000 in competition
Entrepreneurs dedicated to helping empower and build strong communities have reached the final stage of the annual business plan competition sponsored by the YouthBridge Foundation and the Skandalaris Center at WUSTL. The seven finalists have presented their business plans to the judges who will award $155,000 in seed money to the winners. The award ceremony takes place April 13 after a keynote speech by Kevin Salwen who has just published a book about his family’s experience with selling their home, living with less and giving back to their community.
Celebrating 40 years
Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, was the keynote speaker at the Medical Scientist Training Program 40th Anniversary Symposium April 9 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.
Ethic of Service awards presented April 15
Six outstanding individuals will receive the 2010 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in the Knight Center. Founded during the Sesquicentennial year in 2003-04, the Ethic of Service award annually recognizes select members of the university community who exemplify a character of service and giving to the St. Louis region.
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WHAT: The 20th annual Pow Wow at Washington University, a festival of American Indian cultures WHEN: Saturday, April 10 from noon to 10 p.m. Grand entries of dancers will be showcased at 1 and 6 p.m. Arts & crafts booths will open at 10 a.m. WHERE: Washington University’s Athletic Center, near the intersection of Forsyth […]
Flance, emeritus professor of clinical medicine, 98
I. Jerome Flance, MD, a renowned physician, educator and pulmonary disease specialist at Washington University School of Medicine since the 1940s, died Friday, April 2, 2010, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 98.
How a WUSTL field team narrowly escaped stranding on Elephant Island, the South Shetland island made famous by the expedition of the Endurance
As told by WUSTL alumna Stacey Robertson Maurice And then John Evans, the brave man that he is, walked out on the spit to one side of the cove, the waves crashing over his legs. He got out far enough that he was past the worst of the breakers, and then the Zodiac with the […]
Notables
Of note Hugh Macdonald, the Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences, received a gold medal from La Renaissance Française April 1 at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. Macdonald was honored for his scholarship on 19th-century French composers Hector Berlioz, Jules Massenet, Edouard Lalo and Emmanuel Chabrier as well as his […]
Poet Kerri Webster to read April 15
Poet Kerri Webster, who is completing a three-year appointment as visiting writer in residence in The Writing Program in the Department of English, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 15. Webster is the author of the collection We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, as well as a pair of chapbooks: Rowing Through Fog and Psalm Project.
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