Picturing our Past
The transition from high-school student to college student can be a difficult one for some, and over the years the University has implemented many programs and initiatives to help first-year students feel at home. One was the freshman camp (above, 1954), which brought together enrolled students before their first semester began in order to give […]
Research grant extended by NIH into 44th year
“Cyclotron Produced Isotopes in Biology and Medicine” will continue to support research into imaging techniques and agents.
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Tenth Circuits Do Not Call list decision protects residential privacy through the correct interpretation of Supreme Court rulings, says expert
Richards”The Tenth Circuit’s decision upholding the constitutionality of the ‘Do Not Call’ registry is a straightforward application of the Supreme Court’s past rulings on commercial speech,” says Neil M. Richards, an expert in the fields of privacy law and constitutional law and an associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “Telemarketers are a business like any other, and when they engage in abusive and annoying conduct in their attempt to sell its products, they should be subject to consumer protection regulation just like any other business.”
Inequalities in schools and neighborhoods focus of daylong conference Feb. 27
Social inequalities in schools and neighborhoods will be addressed by leading national scholars as well as prominent local scholars, experts and activists during a daylong conference Feb. 27 at Washington University. WUSTL’s Program in Social Thought & Analysis (STA) in Arts & Sciences is sponsoring the conference, titled “Inequalities in Schools & Neighborhoods: St. Louis and Beyond.”
Tom Kennedy Group performs for Jazz at Holmes March 18
The Tom Kennedy Group will perform for Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, March 18.
Brett Stamps Quartet performs for Jazz at Holmes March 25
The Brett Stamps Quartet will perform for Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, March 25.
Romans are to blame for death of Jesus
The soon to be released Mel Gibson movie “The Passion of The Christ” is creating quite a stir among religious experts, as well as lay people. Many say the movie has anti-Semitic overtones. But according to Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, the Jews had nothing to do with killing Jesus — the Romans are actually to blame.
Chamber music concert highlights Washington University composers Feb. 29
Four distinguished St. Louis composers, all affiliated with the Washington University Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will be honored with a concert of their works in the university’s Edison Theatre at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 29.
Robert M. Walker Obituary
Robert M. Walker, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences and faculty fellow for the McDonnell Center for Space Sciences, died Feb. 11 in Brussels, Belgium after an extended battle with stomach cancer. He was 74.
Musicologist Roberta Freund Schwartz to speak Feb. 27
Roberta Freund Schwartz, assistant professor of historical musicology at the University of Kansas, will present a lecture titled “An Investigation into the Late Renaissance episteme Embodied in the Musical Writings of Joachim Burmeister and the Motets of Orlando di Lasso” at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27.
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