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View images of campus the day before the 2008 vice presidential debate.

View photographs of students standing in for the candidates and moderator during the Oct. 1 debate run-through.

The annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society began Oct. 1 and continues through Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis. Frank Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the department, is chairing the event that expects to draw about […]

Session musician, commercial recording engineer, live sound engineer, record producer, bestselling author and psychologist Daniel Levitin visits the WUSTL campus Wednesday, Oct. 8, in Graham Chapel for the Assembly Series. The lecture, originally slated for a 4 p.m. start on the Assembly Series calendar, has been moved up to an 11 a.m. start. Levitin’s talk, […]

Novelist Zachary Lazar, author of “Sway” (2008) and “Aaron Approximately” (1998), will read from his work 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. The talk — part of The Writing Program’s fall Reading Series — is free and open to the public and takes place in Duncker Hall, Room […]

“Media will swarm campus” is the headline this week in the student newspaper at Washington University in St. Louis where Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin are scheduled to kick off their much-anticipated vice presidential debate at 8 p.m. (CDT) Oct. 2, in the University’s Athletic Complex.

The event the University community has spent the past year preparing for has finally arrived. The vice presidential debate between Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin begins at 8 p.m. tonight, in the Field House in the Athletic Complex.

Though no scores are included in his published works, William Shakespeare frequently employed music in his plays, writing poems for new songs and adopting existing ballads. Numerous characters allude to then-popular tunes while composers such as Thomas Morley and Robert Johnson also contributed original compositions. Next week, the acclaimed period music trio Ensemble Chaconne, joined […]

Photo by David KilperBlock’s interests lead to an unexpected career in tax law.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Sept. 23-28. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Sept. 23 8:41 p.m. — A student […]