Newsroom Stories

Sigrid EstradaChapman, lecturer in film & media studies, co-wrote HBO’s *Live From Baghdad*.Richard Chapman, lecturer in screenwriting in Washington University’s Film & Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, has been nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award for the HBO original film Live From Baghdad.

Student Life, the 125 year-old independent student newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis, will be celebrating that milestone with a reunion Sept. 12-14. Expected to attend and speak are former Student Life writers Michael Isikoff (A&S ’74), investigative reporter for Newsweek magazine who broke the Monica Lewinsky story in 1998; Ken Cooper (A&S ’77), national editor for The Boston Globe; and Mike Peters (A&S ’65), creator of the “Mother Goose and Grimm” comic strip.

A memorial gathering commemorating the two-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 in Graham Chapel. The gathering will be a brief coming-together of the campus community to reflect on the tragic events of two years ago and look forward to peace. The public is welcome to attend.

New lens replacement material may aid cataract patientsA gel-like material eventually could replace diseased and aging lenses in the eyes of patients with cataracts. The material also might eventually mean the end of bifocals and contact lenses for millions of people who suffer from presbyopia — literally “old vision” — a condition that makes it difficult for people over 40 to read without magnification. Researchers from the Veterans Affairs (VSA) Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine reported on the gel in New York at the 226th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. The technology could represent a totally different approach to the treatment of cataracts and presbyopia.

Wang Haichen, *Garden Blues* (2002), porcelainChina boasts one of the world’s oldest and richest pottery traditions, yet only in recent years have Chinese ceramicists begun to emerge as individual “studio artists,” rather than collective practitioners. The Washington University School of Art’s Des Lee Gallery explores this burgeoning “new age” in Chinese Ceramics Today: Between Tradition and Contemporary Expression, an exhibition of works by 23 contemporary ceramicists from mainland China and Hong Kong.

In recognition of the Sesquicentennial theme “Treasuring the Past, Shaping the Future,” Arts & Sciences is hosting four “Conversations.”

The forum will be led by a panel of experts discussing how certain social issues affect all of us and how we affect them.

Visitors to the University’s home Web site might have a nice surprise waiting for them: It’s been redesigned. Improving appearance and ease of use were two of the main goals. “We redesign the main Univer-sity Web site on a two-year cycle to keep it fresh-looking, and to adjust our content and navigation to reflect what […]

The goal for the 2003 campaign is $500,000; University faculty and staff members should have already received pledge cards.

A task force developed procedures for instances when an undergraduate seeks to pursue a grievance against a faculty member.