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As one of the “generic geologists” on a dig called the Dakhleh Oasis Project, Jennifer Smith, PhD, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, was asked to sample the alum from ancient mines and to determine whether it could be the source of the blue in the “blue painted pottery” found at sites dating from the New Kingdom.

Journalist and activist Naomi Klein will deliver the annual Chancellor’s Fellowship Lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 24, in Graham Chapel.

The School of Law’s Clinical Legal Education Program will host its 10th annual “Access to Equal Justice Colloquium: Challenging Structural Impediments to Substantive Justice” Friday, March 19 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required.

Robert K. Jackler, MD, spoke at the School of Medicine March 9 about his exhibit that shows how the advertising industry used medical science to promote cigarette smoking in the 20th century.

McDonnell International Scholars Academy student Yu Sun Chung, a doctoral student in psychology in Arts & Sciences and a native of South Koreal, looks out over the New York Stock Exchange from the visitor’s gallery as the opening bell rings March 10. The McDonnell Scholars were in New York March 7-10 to experience firsthand American business and government.

David Frankfurter, PhD, professor of religious studies and history at the University of New Hampshire, will give the Weltin Lecture in Religious Studies at 4 p.m. Monday, March 22, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Holly Williams Leppo is an architect and vice-president at SMB&R, Inc., an architecture, structural engineering and interior design firm in Camp Hill, PA. She specializes in adapting old building forms for new uses, including the study of applicable building codes; accessibility requirements; appropriate historical forms and proportions; and integration of new technologies, building materials and […]

Walter Eckenhoff is co-founder and principal of Eckenhoff Saunders Architects, Inc. (ESA), a 40-person office based in Chicago. Over the years ESA has developed an extensive portfolio in many sectors, ranging from healthcare, banking and education to industrial, hospitality and residential projects. Born in Philadelphia, Eckenhoff moved to Chicago as a teenager. He earned a […]

Susan Pruchnicki is a principal with Bond Wolfe Architects, a St. Louis design firm that has developed a range of educational, municipal and commercial projects. Pruchnicki earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture in 1986 and a Master of Architecture in 1988, both from Washington University. She spent four years with HOK and six […]

Andrew Scott Paluba is co-founder and creative director for Rebecca & Drew Manufacturing, a New York-based fashion design and manufacturing company predicated on a revolutionary new sizing system that Paluba developed with Rebecca Matchett. Born and raised New York, Paluba earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion from Washington University in 2000 and […]