Former British Prime Minister John Major to deliver 145th Commencement address
John MajorThe Right Honorable Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, has been selected to give the 2006 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The university’s 145th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 19 in Brookings Quadrangle. Major’s talk is titled “The Changing World.”
April 2006 Radio Service
Listed below are this month’s featured news stories.
• New pain management targets (week of Apr. 5)
• Finding deadly cancer genes (week of Apr. 12)
• Overweight adolescents study (week of Apr. 19)
• Glucose-hungry tumors (week of Apr. 26)
Kennedy to present original chamber works
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 to speak on craft of poetry
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.
Pollinators especially needed in areas of high plant diversity, biologists say
The biology department’s Tiffany Knight performed an exhaustive global analysis of more than 1,000 pollination studies that included 166 different plant species.
Manchanda appointed Kemper Art Museum curator
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.
Moral psychology conference to be held April 8-9
Philosophy and psychology professors from schools around the country will discuss evolution’s impact on morality, moral reasoning and the psychology of happiness.
Allen named assistant vice chancellor, senior counsel
She earned bachelor’s, master’s and a law degrees here, and she also was an adjunct professor in the School of Law.
Cervical tumors can be detected using PET scans
Cervical cancers that take up a lot of blood sugar resist treatment more than those that are less glucose-hungry.
Fields to deliver Assembly Series talk on rhetoric
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.
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