Sam Fox School to host symposium on ‘Blackness’ March 6

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on “Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness” Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.

Center for the Humanities announces Faculty Fellows

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences has announced its Spring 2009 Faculty Fellows. The three recipients are: Guinn Batten, Ph.D., associate professor of English; Andrea Friedman, Ph.D., associate professor of history and Women & Gender Studies; and Jennifer Kapczynski, Ph.D., assistant professor of German, all in Arts & Sciences.

University earns ‘A’ in campus safety report

Washington University earned an “A” in a recent Reader’s Digest report about the safety of college campuses in the United States. The University was ranked eighth out of 135 institutions surveyed.

Of note

Jianmin Cui, Ph.D., Washington University’s Central Underground Garage, and Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.

Witaya Lecture Series continues March 20

The Interfaculty Initiative for American Indian Affairs (IIAA) is sponsoring the Witaya Lecture Series, a program that focuses on topics related to American Indian and Alaskan Native studies. Witaya means “coming together as a community” in the Lakota language. The series was scheduled to begin March 4 with a lecture by Puneet Sahota, an M.D./Ph.D. […]

New professorships in Arts & Sciences, architecture

Stephen D. Williamson, Ph.D., has been named the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences. Robert McCarter has been installed as the Ruth & Norman Moore Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Students volunteer during spring break

Ahh … spring break. A time for relaxation, rejuvenation and fun. Or, for many WUSTL students, a time for hard work, reflection and a greater sense of purpose. Hundreds of students will spend the break, March 10-16, on service trips in places as far away as Buenos Aires, Argentina and as close as downtown St. Louis.

A good sport

Photo by Mary ButkusJusten Yao, 14, puts on a table tennis exhibition during Eliot Society Family Night at the women’s basketball game Feb. 22.
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