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In Richard Neutra’s Miller House, Leet traces the house from conception to realization and examines the complex relationships involved.

The project will bring together researchers from 13 departments at the University and from elsewhere in Missouri.

Experts on the environment, race and gender, international political economy, poverty and health care will be panelists at an Assembly Series event.

Results from the first reported clinical trial testing the procedure appeared in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

The data shows that the river today, at 500 yards across, is 220 yards narrower at St. Charles, Mo., than it was in 1804.

Photo by Tim ParkerDavid Goodwin wrote the book Ghosts of Jefferson Barracks, which traces the history and hauntings of the supernatural at the military post.

His Nov. 4 talk is titled “The Armenian Genocide and America’s First International Human Rights Movement.”

Photo by Joe AngelesThe National Association of Secretaries of State unveiled a plaque in Brookings Hall as part of its 100th-anniversary celebration.

Courtesy photoWil HaygoodWil Haygood, one of the nation’s leading biographers of African American life, will read present a pair of events Nov. 9 and 10, as a part of The SmartSet Series: Where Great Writers Read, sponsored by Washington University’s Center for Humanities in Arts & Sciences.

PhillipsPoet Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected — for the second time in a relatively short literary career — as a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award in poetry. Phillips was nominated for his seventh collection of poetry, “The Rest of Love: Poems,” published in February by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The National Book Awards are considered one of the most prestigious prizes in American literature.