Newsroom Stories

Photo by David KilperBarbara Feiner, teacher-turned-savvy businesswoman, keeps the University’s finances in order and its operations running smoothly.

Margo Schlanger, J.D., professor of law, testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Nov. 9. She testified during a hearing titled “Review of the Prison Litigation Reform Act: A Decade of Reform or an Increase in Prison and Abuses?” In her testimony, Schlanger discussed how the Prison Litigation Reform […]

The Center for the Humanities and Program in Film & Media Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will host the Fourth Annual Children’s Film Symposium Thursday and Saturday, Nov. 15 and 17. Presented in conjunction with Cinema St. Louis, the event will feature a keynote address by Neal Gabler, author of “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination” and a Q&A with Marion Comer, writer and director of the film “48 Angels” (2006).

Pioneering performance artist Lynn Hershman Leeson and feminist scholar Maria Elena Buszek will join Catharina Manchanda, Ph.D., curator for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, for a panel discussion at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, before the opening of “Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture.”

The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present two concerts in its newly opened 560 Music Center. Noted pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music, will present a solo piano recital at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17. In addition, the Washington University Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Schubert, Franck and Britten at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections will launch the new Modern Graphic History Library with a pair of exhibitions that open Friday, Nov. 16. “Highlights from the Modern Graphic History Library” will open with a reception at 5:30 p.m. in Olin Library’s Ginkgo Reading Room & Grand Staircase Lobby. A reception for “Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women’s Magazine, 1940-1960” will immediately follow at 7 p.m. in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Robert G. Kranz, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study pathways in bioenergy conversion. The first, for $1,203,250, is a long-term NIH R01 renewal that began Aug. 1 titled “Cytochrome c Biogenesis.” The renewal award means that NIH has funded Kranz continuously for 22 years.

Go to BearSports The No. 7 volleyball team won the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional Championship with a 3-1 victory against No. 6 Carthage College Nov. 10, in Kenosha, Wis. The win means the Bears will make their eighth-consecutive appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals, which begin Thursday, Nov. 15, against Emory University in Bloomington, Ill. […]

The Olin Business School is launching a competition to honor an Olin faculty member whose research has the greatest potential to advance business and management practice. The “Olin Award: Recognizing Research That Transforms Business” includes a $10,000 honorarium

Photo by Whitney CurtisCedza Dlamini, (right) Prince of Swaziland and grandson of Nelson Mandela, speaks during a lunch on campus Nov. 5. Dlamini’s visit to the University included a lecture on “Ubuntu: Development, Social Entrepreneurship, and Service” in Graham Chapel.