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Sigg named admissions director for Brown School

Richard Sigg has been promoted to director of admissions and recruitment for the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, announced Ellen Rostand, assistant dean for communications. “Richard is dedicated to the mission of higher education and has a strong commitment to student service,” Rostand said. “He has led an incredible effort to bring in […]

Carlo Ginzburg to present Lara Memorial Lecture

Carlo Ginzburg, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present “Copies, Facsimiles, and the Invisible Text” for the 2009 Rolando Lara Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. Nov. 2 in Whitaker Hall Auditorium. The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences, is free […]

Katz, 86

Sedelle Katz, research assistant in psychiatry from 1971-78 and a visiting lecturer in social work in 1980, died Oct. 12, 2009. She was 86.

Chance vs. strategy

Photo by Whitney CurtisAnna Zatonskih (left), the recently crowned 2009 U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, combines chess and roulette with Rex Sinquefield (right), president and chairman of the board of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Oct. 14 in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Architecture faculty earn AIA awards

Four faculty from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design won a total of six 2009 Design Awards from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Saturday Science series focuses on astronomy

WUSTL physics professors will explore topics in astronomy this fall during the Saturday Science seminar series, sponsored by the Department of Physics and University College, both in Arts & Sciences.

Court of Appeals session at law school

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District will hold a special session at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the School of Law’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The public is invited to hear cases involving a personal injury claim, a domestic violence situation and a lease settlement. The court periodically holds sessions […]

Bringing out the best

Photo by Robert BostonIt seems like a contradiction: scar-free surgery. But for Brent Matthews, M.D., scar-free surgery is nearing reality. Matthews, chief of the Department of Surgery’s Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, is on the leading edge of innovations to make minimally invasive surgery even, well, less invasive.
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