Winter weather information available
If a snow or ice causes the University to alter the normal work and/or class schedules, an announcement will be posted on the University’s home page.
Carmon Colangelo named first dean of Sam Fox School
The current director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia is “an accomplished artist and an experienced academic leader.”
Social services’ Children’s Division conference here
The conference is being hosted by the Center for Mental Health Services Research at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Corn genome to be sequenced by WUSTL center
The maize genome’s 2.5 billion base pairs in 10 chromosomes make it nearly as long as the human’s, which has 2.9 billion base pairs in 23 chromosomes.
More medical news
Fiction writer Heim to read for Writing Program Reading Series
He is the author of Mysterious Skin, a novel that “will haunt and enrage you”; it was recently adapted to film by director Gregg Araki.
Meeting with the neighbors
Photo by Mary ButkusChancellor Mark S. Wrighton chats with some of those attending the “Report to the Neighbors Meeting” Nov. 1 in Whitaker Hall.
Scholarships help address community issues
Photo by Kevin LowderThe Stern Summer Scholarship and the Kaldi’s St. Louis Service Scholarship enable students to pursue community projects in the St. Louis region.
‘Easy to remember, hard to forget’
For Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ph.D., associate professor of Persian and of comparative literature, both in Arts & Sciences, poetry is much more than an academic discipline. It is a profoundly personal experience that requires both the poet and the reader to be fully involved in its consummation. “Poetry is the magic we perform with language,” she […]
Bender notable
Carl M. Bender, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, delivered a talk, titled “Ghost Busting: Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,” as a principal invited speaker at four international conferences this summer. The first conference was the 10th Claude Itzykson Meeting on “Quantum Field Theory Then and Now,” held in June at the Service […]
Range of motion limited in pro pitchers
Researchers reported on a study of 33 professional baseball pitchers in the October issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
View More Stories