Newsroom Stories

In its first performance in St. Louis, the American Indian Repertory Theatre (AIRT) will present “Weaving the Rain,” an award winning play by Dianne Yeahquo Reyner. The play is being hosted by Washington University’s Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies and will be shown at 8 p.m. Nov. 10 and 2 p.m. Nov. 11 in the Village Black Box Theater, located within The Village dormitory complex at the intersection of Forest Park Parkway and Big Bend Blvd.

Rhythms for Rebuilding, WUSTL’s largest benefit concert, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in Graham Chapel and will feature WUSTL’s entire a capella community. The event will raise money for causes related to hunger and poverty.

“An Impending Influenza Pandemic? What has been learned from 1918?” is the focus of a St. Louis community forum from 7:45-11:45 a.m. Nov. 9 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The program features discussions by city, county and national health directors and explores how St. Louis can use lessons from past flu outbreaks to prepare for a global bird flu pandemic that some experts see lurking on the horizon.

William H. Gass, Ph.D., the David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, was presented with the 2007 Saint Louis Literary Award during a ceremony Oct. 24 at Saint Louis University.

Washington University researcher Stanton Braude, lecturer in biology in Arts & Sciences, says the secret to a long life in humans might exist in the wrinkled body of one of the world’s ugliest animals — the naked mole rat.

Washington University marked the acquisition of its “One Hundred Years of Little Black Sambo” collection with a reception Oct. 12 at Olin Library. Most of the collection’s 234 items — which include books, puzzles, dishes, games and figurines — were created between 1899 and 1999 and were purchased in part through the financial support of Constance Levy and her late husband, Monroe; the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences; and the University Libraries.

Cedza Dlamini, prince of Swaziland and grandson of Nelson Mandela, will speak about “Ubuntu: Development, Social Entrepreneurship, and Service” at 4 p.m. Nov. 5 in Graham Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut and moonwalker, will present Arts & Sciences senior Lonia Friedlander with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a public ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 1 in Brookings Hall, Room 300. Immediately following the presentation, Duke will give a talk, titled “A Journey to the Moon!” that is free and open to the public.

Erika Crouch’s genuine excitement about education helps students feel that what she teaches them is important.

Up to $100,000 will be available for WUSTL students for internships and innovative projects this summer in the form of social change grants, stipends for internships through the Career Center and the Gephardt Institute for Public Service summer service stipend program. A meeting will be at 4 p.m. Nov. 1 in Lambert Lounge in Mallinckrodt Student Center to discuss the various opportunities for students.