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It’s one of the most acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the last decade and surprise winner of the 1996-97 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best musical.

It’s dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth “Ibby” Gray Danforth, the University’s first lady for nearly a quarter century, and Sona Haydon, a longtime lecturer.

Hilltop Campus Phase IVB Housing The superstructure work is complete. Mechanical, electric and plumbing (MEP) rough-ins are progressing. Tarlton Corp. is on schedule for the project. Occupancy remains scheduled for August. Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts In the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the curtain wall and glazing at the south continue. […]

Andrew M. Bursky, Arnold W. Donald, Harold H. Schreimann, Gary E. Wendlandt, Danielle Forget and Preston M. & Nancy Green will be honored.

Those on the Hilltop Campus holding a University ID card will be able to use their card to purchase snacks and beverages from selected machines.

The professorship is a gift of the late William H. Matheson, a professor of comparative literature and a member of the Committee on Comparative Literature.

Baseball team sweeps four games, now 26-5; Lessmann wins 300th The baseball team went 4-0 last week to improve to 26-5. In each of the four games, WUSTL limited its opponent to two runs. Junior Eddy Hoering started his big week with a solo home run in the second inning of an 8-2 win April […]

The lecture, “The Accelerating Universe: Einstein’s Blunder Undone,” will be given by Harvard’s Robert Kirshner, president of the American Astronomical Society.

For years, the St. Louis region has attempted to promote itself as a new biotechnology hub. But if that is the case, how aligned are the local human resource development strategies with the economic goals of the area? If St. Louis does become a great biotechnology hub, where will the scientifically literate workforce come from? […]

Unraveling the mysteries of the human brain, and the mind it gives rise to, is within the reach of modern science, suggests a forthcoming issue of the journal Neuroscience. The special issue explores how sophisticated working memory processes — from the firing of a single neuron to the activation of multiple brain regions — help shape our understanding of the world, says issue co-editor Grega Repovs, a visiting post-doctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.