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The only areas not yet finished are the Crossroads Café, the grand staircase and a reading room on the east side of the building.

Construction Update is published periodically and provides information about the progress of major building and renovation projects. Information is provided to the Record by facilities management. Earth and Planetary Sciences Building The masonry work continues with the granite and limestone facade. The roofing is complete. Partition framing continues on all levels, and dry-wall and painting […]

For more than 50 years, the Assembly Series has brought some of the most important voices in contemporary society to campus, including the 14th Dalai Lama (above) in September 1993. The Dalai Lama is the head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The spring 2004 Assembly Series kicked off with Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

Pianist James Prell will join the Washington University Symphony Orchestra for a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, in University’s Graham Chapel.

DaviesFiction Writer Peter Ho Davies will present a pair of events Feb. 26 and March 4.

LeeHelie Lee, author of the national bestselling memoirs Still Life with Rice (1996) and In the Absence of Sun (2002), will host a pair of events Feb. 23-24 for The SmartSet Series: Where Great Writers Read, sponsored by Washington University’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences.

Photograph © Douglas M. Parker StudioJean-Michel Basquiat *Horn Players* 1983 Acrylic and oil paintstick on three canvas panels, 96 x 75Works by contemporary composers John Adams, Emma Diemer, William Bolcom and saxophonist Anders Lundegaard will highlight a concert of American Music of the 1980s at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, at the Washington University Gallery of Art.

David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoBruce Fegley, Jr. and Laura Schaefer, with a chunk of galena, or lead sulfide.Lead sulfide — also known by its mineral name, galena — is a naturally occurring mineral found in Missouri, other parts of the world, and now. . .other parts of the solar system. Because recent thermodynamic calculations by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis provide plausible evidence that “heavy metal snow,” which blankets the surface of upper altitude Venusian rocks, is composed of both lead and bismuth sulfides.

A graduate student in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has combed the dinosaur fossil record from T. Rex to songbirds and has compiled the first quantitative analysis of the quality and congruence of that record.

Photo courtesy of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s DepartmentJury selection will be at issue in the Jackson trial.From Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart and Phil Spector to Kobe Bryant and Jayson Williams, celebrity criminal trials continue to be top news items. But as the spotlight on these trials intensifies, attorneys representing celebrities are presented with a unique set of challenges, says Christopher Bracey, an expert in the fields of criminal rights and criminal process and an associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “Instead of focusing solely on preparing a strong legal defense, these attorneys are dealing with issues such as client management, tainted jury pools and misinformation.”