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David Kilper / WUSTL PhotoTracey Kaplan as Madeline and Brian Golden as Stamp in the world premiere of *Kid Peculiar at the Coral Court Motel* by Carter W. Lewis.October 1992. St. Louis and the nation await the Clinton-Bush-Perot presidential debate at Washington University. An estranged mother and son reunite for perhaps the last time at a fading St. Louis icon. The stage is set for Kid Peculiar at the Coral Court Motel, by playwright-in-residence Carter W. Lewis. The St. Louis-based tragi-comedy — commissioned as part of the university’s 150th anniversary celebration — will make its world premiere in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre March 25-28.

Scott Levin and Adam Cromer in the Washington University Opera’s production *Of Mice and Men*.The Washington University Opera will present Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men, based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20.

LawlorEdward F. Lawlor, Ph.D., dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, will become dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB) on July 1, 2004, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Lawlor will succeed Shanti K. Khinduka, Ph.D., who last year announced his intention to retire as dean on June 30, 2004.

When the University Training School for Nurses opened in 1907-08, the admission requirements included “a good common school education, good moral character and a sound physique… .” No tuition was charged for the three-year program, and students received free board and lodging. During World War I, some nurses from the school joined the University’s Base […]

Schedule of events and participant biographies for the Campus Ecology Workshops, part of The Sustainable University Campus, a national colloquium on campus environmental design organized by the School of Architecture and the U.S. Green Buildings Council—St. Louis Chapter March 28 and 30.

Ann Nguyen chose a risky project for her graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis. A university team had already sifted through 100,000 grains from a meteorite to look for a particular type of stardust — without success. In 2000, Nguyen decided to try again. About 59,000 grains later, her gutsy decision paid off. In the March 5 issue of Science, Nguyen and her advisor, Ernst K. Zinner, Ph.D., research professor of physics and of earth and planetary sciences, both in Arts & Sciences, describe nine specks of silicate stardust — presolar silicate grains — from one of the most primitive meteorites known.

The results of an experimental cross-species transplant suggest the innovative approach might halt type 1 diabetes while greatly reducing the risk of rejection. Click here for more medical articles

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and the St. Louis Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will present a concert and symposium highlighting the works of French composer Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) March 19 and 20. The concert commemorates the immense organ of 10,000 pipes built for Festival Hall, the primary concert venue of the 1904 World’s Fair.

LevitteJean-David Levitte, French Ambassador to the United States, will deliver a lecture on “The United States and France in a World Transformed,” at noon March 13 in the Uncas A. Whitaker Hall auditorium on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

South African fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, winner of the Westfield Center for keyboard studies’ prestigious Young Scholar’s Award, will present a fortepiano recital in Washington University’s Karl Umrath Hall Lounge at 8 p.m. Monday, March 15.