Word detective
As one of the world’s leading experts on literacy and spelling development, Rebecca A. Treiman has spent more than two decades finding order in the perceived chaos of the English language. “The English writing system is often considered to be chaotic and hard to learn,” said Treiman, Ph.D., the Burke & Elizabeth High Baker Professor […]
Know your etiquette
Photo by Mary ButkusThe Career Center’s annual Etiquette Dinner was Oct. 27; students learned how to conduct themselves during a business meal.
Judge to discuss book on Wiley Rutledge
John M. Ferren, senior judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, will discuss his new book, “Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge,” 11 a.m. November 10 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Ferren’s book, published by University of North Carolina Press, examines the life of Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, former faculty member and dean of the Washington University School of law.
Landscaping, environment help make campus safer
A program called Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design reaps major benefits when it comes to reducing the chance for crime.
Once again, time to give back; Give Thanks Give Back, that is
The University will again support the Give Thanks Give Back campaign this holiday season. Give Thanks Give Back aims to provide gifts and donations to area families in need by having individuals or departments adopt them. The Office of Student Activities began this support of the 100 Neediest Cases, sponsored by the United Way and […]
Speak out, be heard
Photo by Mary ButkusThe annual Report to Washington University Neighbors meeting gives community members to interact with University administrators.
PAD to present Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine
It’s a classic gender-bending satire of colonial and sexual conquest; performances will be Nov. 12-14 and 19-20 in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.
Superhero visits Hilltop
Photo by Mary ButkusMore than 260 children attended Safe Trick-or-Treat Oct. 30, sponsored by Campus Y and the Congress of the South 40.
Biographer of African-American life Haygood to speak Nov. 9-10
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.
Obituary: Loeb, emeritus professor, 83
He was a hematologist and medical oncologist and, beginning in 1979, a member of the board of directors of the American Cancer Society.
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