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Matthea HarveyPoet Matthea Harvey, author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form and Sad Little Breathing Machine, will read from her work for Washington University’s Writing Program Fall Reading Series at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4.

A great range of social, political and economic issues hang in the balance of the imminent presidential election outcome. These issues, and their significance to the American public, will be explored in a “Town Hall” style meeting with Washington University faculty members for the Nov. 3 Assembly Series. The event, to be held at 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel on the Washington University campus, is free and open to the public.

Hugh MacDonaldMusicologist Hugh Macdonald, the Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will lecture on “Berlioz’s Lost Roméo et Juliette” at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5.

NorbergRichard E. Norberg, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a co-recipient of the 2004 ISMAR Prize, the highest honor the International Society of Magnetic Resonance awards.

As assistant dean, she “has made outstanding contributions to many aspects of the graduate school’s mission,” Dean Robert E. Thach says.

Henric S. Krawczynski is one of eight scientists in the country to receive the prestigious Outstanding Junior Investigator Award.

High levels of a protein called LRP6 can make cancer cells more aggressive, according to Washington University researchers affiliated with the Siteman Cancer Center. The protein’s ability to enhance tumor development suggests that the gene that codes for LRP6 is an oncogene — a gene that contributes to tumor development when overactivated.

ChideyaFew people are more knowledgeable about the complicated reasons why young adults in America, as well as the traditionally disenfranchised groups, don’t exercise their right to vote. Farai Chideya will explore the reasons for this and discuss ways to reach these large groups of Americans, at her talk on Oct. 27.

Henric S. Krawczynski, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in high-energy physics, one of eight scientists in the country to receive the prestigious recognition in 2004.

In his most recent book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, published in 2004, author and poet Peter Balakian describes the systematic deportation and murder of as many as 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during World War I. The book was a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times best seller.