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Photo courtesy of Visual Media Center, Columbia UniversityAmiens CathedralStephen Murray, a leading authority on medieval art and architecture and founder of the Visual Media Center at Columbia University, will speak on Medieval Architecture and the New Media: Representing and Creating Humanistic Content at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18.

The Kingsbury Ensemble, a group specializing in music of the Baroque and Classical periods, will present a concert titled Fête Galante: Love & Nature at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, in Washington University’s Holmes Lounge.

Novelist, translator and poet Jaimy Gordon will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, for The Writing Program Reading Series at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, Gordon will give a talk on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6.

Sheet music for the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz.”Selections from the 1902 stage musical The Wizard of Oz by St. Louis native Paul Tietjens will highlight a concert of 19th- and early 20th-century popular song at the Washington University Gallery of Art Friday, Nov. 7.

Author Adam Hochschild will deliver the annual Holocaust Memorial lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 11 a.m. The lecture, entitled “The Holocaust in the Congo – Then and Today,” is free and open to the public. It will be held in Graham Chapel, located just north of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth Blvd.) on the Washington University campus.Hochschild’s talk will be based on his acclaimed book, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998).

Scientist and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram will give a presentation based on his book, A New Kind of Science, at 4 p.m. Nov. 6 in Graham Chapel for Washington University’s Assembly Series. The event is free and open to the public. Graham Chapel is located just north of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth).

The dedication of Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering on Oct. 20, 2003, was a major step forward in a plan begun more than a decade ago to launch a nationally prominent department in this rapidly growing field. It also crystallizes the ongoing collaboration of researchers in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Medicine begun more than 40 years ago.

Shirley J. Dyke is “at the forefront of young researchers”

The football team won its 10th straight University Athletic Association opener with a 28-0 win against the University of Chicago Oct. 18 in front of 2,652 fans at Francis Field. The victory also means the Bears keep possession of the Founder’s Cup, which commemorates the first game played between the two schools. Defense was the […]

Washington University faculty and staff make news around the world. Following is a representative sampling of media coverage from clippings and electronic sources received between July 1 and Sept. 30, 2003. A “jaw-some” discovery A research team co-directed by Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has dated a human jawbone from a […]