Newsroom Stories

For the first time in the United States, the presidents of 13 premier universities from Asia and the Middle East will gather at WUSTL May 4-7 to discuss ways their institutions are addressing global energy and environmental concerns.

Wired magazine cites WUSTL’s Science on Tap in the April issue. Established in fall 2005 and organized by Cynthia A. Wichelman, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine in medicine, Science on Tap lets community members gather in a pub setting to discover topics developed by Danforth campus scientists.

Artist Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, will speak about his work at 6:30 p.m. April 13 in Room 458 of Louderman Hall as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ spring Architecture Lecture Series.

Researchers at WUSTL and in Beijing studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China have determined that the “out of Africa” dispersal of modern humans may not have been as simple as once thought.

The Washington University Concert Choir will perform music based on Old Testament texts at 8 p.m. April 13 in Graham Chapel.

Fiction writers Elizabeth Graver and Edward Schwarzschild, both alumni of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from their work at 8 p.m. April 13 in Duncker Hall’s Hurst Lounge.

The “New I-64” construction will come close to home as contractors prepare to pave temporary traffic lanes and install temporary signals on Kingshighway Boulevard.

As Major League Baseball prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary on April 15 of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the “color barrier,” Gerald L. Early, Ph.D., professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, publishes a column that argues: “Black Americans don’t play baseball because they don’t want to.”

Photo by Mary ButkusJon Dumpys, vicar, and Brittany Kosloski, administrator, both with Lutheran Campus Ministry, look over the organization’s display at “Faces of Hope” April 5 in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

The Washington University mathematics team competing in the 2006 William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition ranked ninth in the contest out of 402 teams participating.