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Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present A Concert on Women’s Mental Health at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The performance, which will feature compositions based on poems by Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, is free and open to the public and held in conjunction with the exhibition Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art.

The renowned cultural, gender and medical theorist will speak on “Paradoxes of Visibility: Women’s Health in a ‘Post-Reproductive Era.'”

He had an international reputation as a geochemist and was one of the first planetary scientists to study rock samples taken from the moon.

Photo by Mary ButkusJane Miller of the Office of Community and Governmental Relations watches as children and chaperones visit the St. Louis Science Center.

Baseball team runs winning streak to 12 The baseball team went 4-1 last week, stretching its winning streak to 12 games before falling to Coe College on March 26. The Bears (16-4) opened the week with a 3-2 win against Greenville College on March 21. With the game tied at 2 in the bottom of […]

The Atkins chair is the first professorship in the United States specifically devoted to supporting the study of obesity.

Courtesy PhotoNeurology postdoctoral researcher Yan Hu, Ph.D. (right), discusses her poster presentation at the Inaugural Postdoc Scientific Symposium Feb. 23.In The Scientist magazine’s third annual “Best Places for Postdocs to Work” survey, WUSTL was No. 2 for U.S. academic institutions.

Events will include screenings of Eyes on the Prize episodes and a panel discussion about the significance of the series.

With significant contributions from the Genome Sequencing Center, the sequence of the human X chromosome has been published.

Sponsored by the Association of Black Students, the talk also serves as the keynote address for the “Documenting Change” symposium.