Newsroom Stories

Pianist and harpsichordist Charles Metz, Ph.D., will perform on the virginal, a smaller, rectangular version of the harpsichord at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 22 at the 560 Music Center.

Photo by David Kilper”Candlestick Park,” the Hotchner-winning play by alumna Elizabeth Birkenmeier (LA ’08), opens March 26.

The prostate cancer screening tests that have become an annual ritual for many men don’t appear to reduce deaths from the disease, at least among those with a limited life-expectancy, according to early results of a major U.S. study involving 75,000 men.

Some of the nation’s most prominent African-American writers and thinkers will meet at WUSTL March 25-28 during the 2009 Callaloo Conference.

Doors that dance, chairs that twirl, a cage that doubles as a gymnast’s apparatus. Welcome to the world of Diavolo, the high-flying Los Angeles company known for examining the funny, frightening and unexpected ways individuals interact with their environments. Next week Diavolo will return to St. Louis and perform two shows for the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series, as well as a special matinee for the ovations for young people series.

Joe AngelesJames V. Wertsch, Ph.D. (left), the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy and of International & Area Studies in Arts & Sciences, walks through the park in front of the White House with the McDonnell Scholars during a tour of Washington, D.C., March 9. Click here for a slideshow of the scholars’ tour of our nation’s capital.

Haba na Haba (Swahili for “step by step”) is an internationally renowned Kenyan performance group that first formed in the slums of Nairobi, using acrobatics, music, dance and drama to raise awareness and educate their communities on topics such as HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, reproductive health, women’s issues and violence. They are visiting St. Louis through March 23.

Fourteen students from the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences took part in the Central Region American College Dance Conference, held March 11 to 14 at Hendrix College in Conway, AZ. Adjudicators chose two works — Stuck in the Waiting by junior Eliotte Henderson and Falling Petals by lecturer Ting-Ting Chang, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Dance — to be performed as part of the concluding Gala Concert.

Since its inception a decade ago, the Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award has been given annually to a husband and wife couple dedicated to improving the St. Louis region through service, generosity and leadership. In a ceremony on February 26, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton bestowed the 10th such award on Barbara and Andrew Taylor.

Blood drives at Washington University have come a long way in a short amount of time. Contention between blood banks, four-day-long drives and limited appeal have been replaced by efficient one-day, campus-wide drives at numerous University locations, which have garnered massive support from students, faculty and staff. The next drive is March 25.