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The former HUD Secretary and founder of a private organization to help the homeless will look at America through social workers’ eyes and offer hope for the socially marginalized.

The School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis will present the international symposium Critical Praxis for the Emerging Culture: A Collaborative Investigation Into the Nature of Cultural Transformation Brought About by Technology and Media April 15, 16 and 17.

Biography of projection artist Krysztof Wodiczko.

Principal particpant biographies for the international symposium Critical Praxis for the Emerging Culture: A Collaborative Investigation Into the Nature of Cultural Transformation Brought About by Technology and Media.

Washington University faculty and staff make news around the world. Following is a representative sampling of media coverage from clippings and electronic sources. For the most recent clips, see the Clips Index

Washington University faculty and staff make news around the world. Following is a representative sampling of media coverage from clippings and electronic sources.

Richard Howard, poetry editor of The Paris Review, will present a talk on the craft of poetry at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, for The Writing Program Reading Series at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, Howard will read from his own work at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 18.

Animal studies also indicate that brief exposure to small amounts of anesthetic drugs can trigger “significant nerve cell death,” researchers report. Click here for more medical articles

FlinnOn Feb. 27, the John Jay School of Criminal Law will release its report on the abuse of minors by priests from 1950 to 2002. Those who have seen it, claim the report will demonstrate that roughly 4,500 priests abused 11,000 minors during that time and that the abuse took place in 70 out of 90 dioceses in America. Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on the Catholicism, claims that the sex-abuse scandal is “far-and-away the most serious crisis to confront the American Catholic Church in its entire history.”

Herma Hill Kay, the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law and former dean at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), will deliver a lecture on “Celebrating Early Women Law Professors” 9 a.m. March 4 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The lecture will follow the Women’s Law Caucus’ fifth annual International Women’s Day Celebration at 8 a.m. in the Janite Lee Reading Room, honoring Kay, Washington University School of Law alumnae who graduated 50 or more years ago, and the law school’s first three tenured women professors, Susan Appleton, Kathleen Brickey, and Karen Tokarz.