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Scholars from around the world will come to the Hilltop Campus Feb. 12-14 for the symposium “Tennessee Williams: The Secret Year.”

Eminent physicist Charles Falco contends that the great master painters of earlier centuries used optical instruments nearly 200 years earlier than previously even thought possible and account for the remarkable transformation in the realistic portraits appearing as early as the 15th Century.

His book is titled Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning.

A study that included investigators in the School of Medicine is the first to demonstrate an association between a particular gene and alcoholism. Click here for more medical articles

Study participants with optic nerve disease were 20 times more likely to be pathologically sleepy than those with normal sight. Click here for more medical articles

Sabine Eckmann, curator of the Washington University Gallery of Art, and Paul Ha, director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, will speak on Recalling 1980s New York for the Gallery of Art’s Friday Forum series at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. CALENDAR SUMMARY WHO: Sabine Eckmann, curator, Washington University Gallery of Art, and Paul […]

The Lawrence Fields Group will perform for Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12. CALENDAR SUMMARY WHO: Lawrence Fields Group WHAT: Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 WHERE: Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall, located on the west side of Brookings Quadrangle, […]

Dead Cat Bounce will perform for Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19. CALENDAR SUMMARY WHO: Dead Cat Bounce WHAT: Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19 WHERE: Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall, located on the west side of Brookings Quadrangle, near […]

Randy Holmes Hard Bop Heritage will perform for Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. CALENDAR SUMMARY WHO: Randy Holmes Hard Bop Heritage WHAT: Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 WHERE: Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall, located on the west side […]

Angela Miller, associate professor of Art History and Archaeology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, and Andrew Walker, senior curator at the Missouri Historical Society, will speak on Painting America in the 19th Century for the Gallery of Art’s Friday Forum series at 7 p.m. Friday, April 2. CALENDAR SUMMARY WHO: Angela Miller, associate […]