Newsroom Stories

Sports update for the week of Feb. 22.

Africa Week, an annual event celebrating African culture sponsored by the African Students Association, begins Monday, Feb. 22, and continues through Friday, Feb. 26. The week’s focus is on myths about identity, art and legends and how they effect Africans around the world.

A knitting club comprising about 30 School of Medicine faculty and staff meets weekly to knit hats for premature babies at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and for cancer patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

The intricately intertwined relationship between the global economy and politics will be the focus of a public forum titled “Politics and the Global Recession” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25 in the Knight Center. The program is being sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy.

Donna Haraway, Ph.D., an internationally recognized theorist and historian of science and technology, is visiting the Department of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis as a Hurst Professor Monday, Feb. 22, through Friday, Feb. 26. As part of her visit, Haraway will give the opening talk Feb. 24 in a lecture series titled “21st Century Science Studies: Agents of Overlap in Biology and the Humanities.”

Washington University in St. Louis has more than 12,000 students, 4,500-plus faculty and staff and only 5,168 parking spaces on its Danforth Campus.Students at the Olin Business School saw this problem as a real world business case and decided to tackle it head-on with a competition to inspire innovative solutions to the campus parking challenge with an emphasis on keeping it green. 

A new book, “The Missouri Botanical Garden Climatron: A Celebration of 50 Years,” by Eric Mumford, Ph.D., professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, chronicles the history and significance of the St. Louis landmark. In 1976, the Climatron was named one of the most important buildings in American architectural history by the American Institute of Architects.

The Center for Social Development at the Brown School is advising and helping to test innovations in asset building — strategies that increase financial and tangible assets for families and businesses — in several countries in East and Southeast Asia.

Medieval religious historian and scholar Caroline Walker Bynum, Ph.D., will give the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities lecture as part of the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, in the Women’s Building Lounge. Bynum’s talk, “Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles and Their Theorists,” will focus on the era between 1150 and 1550 when many Christians in western Europe made pilgrimages to venerate material objects that allegedly erupted into animation.

St. Louis floodplains are in danger of contamination from radioactive wastes dumped years ago at a landfill in North St. Louis County, according to Robert Criss, Ph.D. professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.