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Renowned Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun will join award-winning American poet Brian Henry for a reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3. The event, sponsored by the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences as part of its spring Reading Series, is free and open to the public and takes place in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst […]

Television news personality Chris Matthews has been selected to give the 2008 Commencement address, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

From traditional foods to informative presentations and lively entertainment, students in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work — home to a diverse student body with international students from more than 30 countries — will offer a taste of their homelands during the 14th annual International Festival April 10 and 13. The theme of […]

Glen Bowersock, D.Phil., an internationally respected historian on Greek, Roman and Near Eastern history and culture, will give the Biggs Lecture in the Classics for the Assembly Series. The talk, “Globalization in Late Antiquity,” is scheduled for 4 p.m. April 10 in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. Bowersock is professor emeritus of ancient history at the Institute […]

Nineteen WUSTL schools, academic areas and departments at the graduate and professional levels currently hold top 10 rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of graduate and professional programs, which were released Friday, March 28.

Photo by Whitney CurtisNearly 100 scholars from 70 institutions in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and across the United States gathered March 14 – 15 at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center for the annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

Peter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate professor of architecture, has received one of three national Creative Achievement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). MacKeith received the award for the design studio “Lighthouses: Adventures on the Mississippi,” which he led in the spring of 2007.

Katherine M. Grillo, Kenneth Harrington, Samuel L. Stanley Jr., Samuel A. Wickline, M.D., William A. Peck, M.D., and more …

School of Medicine researchers found that depressed heart attack patients have a higher risk for sudden death for years following a heart attack.

The recently established Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) has awarded its first set of grants to 15 ICTS investigators.