Newsroom Stories

Photo by Robert BostonThe University’s fourth-year medical students learned March 15 where they will do their residencies.

At 8 p.m. March 30-31, Edison Theatre will present “Stories Left to Tell,” a tribute to the late Spalding Gray featuring Spalding’s brother Rockwell Gray, adjunct instructor in University College in Arts & Sciences.

Sitting on a beach during spring break might be easier than helping to build a home or assisting with hurricane relief, but hundreds of University students chose the latter option anyway, saying it provided them with a deeper sense of purpose.

Represented by the University’s Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, the Sierra Club reached a precedent-setting energy agreement with Kansas City Power & Light March 19.

Well before a tornado hits, individuals should know what to do in an emergency, and departments, schools and residence halls should establish a calling tree.

Photo by Kevin LowderSenior Sharad Wadhwani is reunited with his former French teacher Tracy Waters of Shorewood High School in Shorewood, Wis. Waters was in town to receive a 2007 Cornerstone Faculty Mentor Award — for which Wadhwani nominated her — March 21 in Holmes Lounge.

Devin DeWeese, Ph.D., a noted scholar of Islam in Asia, will discuss “Survival Strategies: Interpreting Islam in Central Asia, Past and Present” at 11 a.m. March 30 in Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge.

A group headed by a School of Medicine researcher has found that two anti-epileptic drugs can prevent permanent hearing loss in mice exposed to loud noises.

Recent alumna Carolyn Kras’ historical drama “Highness,” winner of the 2006 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition, receives its world premiere March 29.

April 2-8, students will perform “365 Plays/365 Days” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, part of a yearlong grassroots festival of more than 600 theater companies, arts organizations and universities across the nation.