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The assistant professor of theory & composition earned a doctorate from the Juilliard School in 2005 and joined WUSTL’s music department last fall.

Jon Cook, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will speak on the craft of poetry at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 15. Cook is the author of Romanticism and Ideology (1981), William Hazlitt: Selected Writings (1991), Poetry in Theory (2004) and the forthcoming Hazlitt in Love.

The biology department’s Tiffany Knight performed an exhaustive global analysis of more than 1,000 pollination studies that included 166 different plant species.

She succeeds Sabine Eckmann; the appointment comes at a critical time for the museum, which will open a new 65,000-square-foot facility this fall.

Philosophy and psychology professors from schools around the country will discuss evolution’s impact on morality, moral reasoning and the psychology of happiness.

She earned bachelor’s, master’s and a law degrees here, and she also was an adjunct professor in the School of Law.

Cervical cancers that take up a lot of blood sugar resist treatment more than those that are less glucose-hungry.

He’s been at WUSTL since 1968; national media often ask him to provide expert commentary regarding the use of rhetoric as a political or social tool.

As part of a State Department program, the visitors made presentations to law school faculty and students on legal education and the legal profession in Nepal.

The School of Law entered the top 20 for the first time, moving into a tie for 19th this year; the M.B.A. program in the Olin School climbed to a tie for 26th.