Construction update
Construction Update is published periodically and provides information about the progress of major building and renovation projects. Information is provided to the Record by Facilities Management. Harry and Susan Seigle Hall Painting has begun on the lower levels. Taping is in progress on the upper levels. Terrazzo is complete on the lower level, and crews […]
Awareness of Alzheimer’s onset lags with less schooling
People who spend fewer years in school may experience a slight but significant delay in realizing they have symptoms that could be Alzheimer’s disease.
‘Dr. Drew’ gives keynote for Sexual Responsibility Week
Physician, radio and television personality, health advocate and writer Drew Pinsky, M.D., will present “Loveline with Dr. Drew” at 6 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Laboratory Sciences Building Auditorium, Room 300.
Carnegie curator Douglas Fogle to speak at Kemper
Douglas Fogle, curator of contemporary art for the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, will discuss his curatorial experiences and the practice of contemporary painting at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Fogle is currently organizing the 55th Carnegie International, which will open in Pittsburgh May 2008 and remain on view through January 2009.
Community lunch
Photo by Kevin LowderJessica Gibson, a student at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, chats with Sam Kadaian, one of the family owners of University City’s Queen of Sheba East African restaurant during a recent Community Lunch in Goldfarb Hall Commons.
Court of Appeals session at law school Feb. 13
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hold a special session from 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the School of Law’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The public is invited to hear three appeals cases related to three topics: misconduct during the discovery process, wrongful death and First Amendment retaliation. The […]
Why can’t class be like this every day?
Photo by Mary ButkusWhile the Giants and Patriots battled to win Super Bowl XLII, about 100 students, faculty and staff gathered at the Knight Center for a different competition: Super Advertising Bowl VIII.
Keshavarz to give insight into life in modern Iran
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ph.D., professor of Persian language and literature and chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences, will give the Assembly Series lecture at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 13, in Graham Chapel.
University, Pfizer extend biomedical research collaboration agreement
The University and Pfizer Inc. will collaborate more closely under a new $25 million, five-year biomedical research agreement.
WUSTL helps critique national fire safety video
Washington University was one of 60 universities invited to participate in a People’s Burn Foundation (PBF) pilot study on a PBF-produced fire safety video. The Department of Environmental Health and Safety coordinated the project with the PBF.
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