Newsroom Stories

Photo by David KilperA recent temporary installation by Kiyoto Koseki, a senior sculpture major in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, greeted drivers and pedestrians on Skinker Boulevard outside the College of Art’s Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall.

University students who have a passion for collecting books can compete for prizes of $1,000 and $500 by entering the 20th Annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.

Washington University’s sports medicine specialists will coordinate care at the NCAA Division I Men’s Midwest Regional March 23-25 in St. Louis.

The women’s basketball team (25-6) wrapped up its season with a 55-52 loss to DePauw University March 17 in the NCAA Division III national championship game. The No. 8 men’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA Division III Final Four for the first time in school history and came away with a third-place finish.

Washington University joined a consortium of leading U.S. scientific and medical institutions March 19 to warn the U.S. Congress that persistent flat funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Yixin Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received the Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Chen will use his three-year, $298,421 award to develop numerical computation software that can solve large-scale computational problems, such as those arising from ultra-high-speed networks and genetic regulatory networks. … Joy Weese Moll, reference and Web services librarian, recently presented her workshop “Social Software in Libraries” at four locations: the Lewis & Clark Library System headquarters in Edwardsville, Ill.; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; the Southern Illinois Learning Resources Cooperative Retreat at Rend Lake, Ill.; and the Kirkwood (Mo.) Public Library.

The following incidents were reported to University Police March 8-20. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. March 9 4:52 p.m. — A call was received from Millbrook #4 regarding a suspicious male who had entered a student’s apartment at this location. The student asked the subject to leave and he did so. he student described the subject as an African-American male, 5’6″, between 20-25 years old, wearing a black puffy coat, black hat and black pants. The subject was apprehended just east of the Millbrook overpass. Nothing was taken from apartment. March 13 3:30 a.m. — A caller reported a fire in a large trashcan outside McMillen Lab. Clayton Fire Department responded to extinguish the fire. Four suspects were seen fleeing from the fire. March 14 10:12 a.m. — A complainant reported damage to a door in Anheuser-Busch Hall that occurred sometime within the past three years. University Police also responded to three lost articles, false fire alarm, two assaults, two auto accidents and one report each of burglary and drug violation.

The Washington University Opera will present Kirke Mechem’s highly acclaimed 1980 adaptation of Molière’s comedy “Tartuffe” at 8 p.m. March 23-24 at Edison Theatre.

Joseph A. RosenBig George BrockLegendary blues vocalist and harmonica player Big George Brock will perform at Washington University March 29. Raised on a plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, Brock has shared the stage with figures such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Howlin’ Wolf and operated a series of popular St. Louis blues clubs, including the 1,000-seat Club Caravan. In recent years he has released three critically acclaimed albums: Front Door Man, Club Caravan and Round Two.

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, associate professor of religious studies at Stanford University, will present the 2007 Adam Cherrick Lecture in Jewish Studies, “Making a Home in the Diaspora: Judaism and the Neighborhood” at 7 p.m. March 21 in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Rm. 204 on the Danforth Campus.