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“Dean Weese has made an indelible mark on the growth and strength of the School of Architecture,” Chancellor Wrighton says.

Photo by Mary ButkusVia games, crafts, movies and massages, Stress-Free Zones offer students a chance to relax as they prepared for finals.

David Blasingame, Michael Isikoff, Harry Jonas, Constance Kling Levy, Jerome Loeb and Sally Silvers will be honored May 21.

Walter Barker; Susanne Bell; Helen Duncan; H. LeRoy Scharon.

The deadline for applications for the Bear Cub Fund is Sept. 1. The fund, which was founded to help support the development of new inventions, was established by the Office of Research to help University inventors attract investment interest. For more details, contact Tom Hagerty at 747-0926 or hagertyt@wustl.edu.

The analysis, published in a recent issue of the journal Nature, revealed that the chromosome has about 1,150 genes and 940 so-called pseudogenes.

Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, best-selling author and foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, will discuss “What Kind of International Borders Will Exist in the 21st Century?” for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Sept. 17 in the Athletic Complex. Friedman’s lecture also is the Arts & Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture. Having won […]

Prolific author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich will give the Olin Fellows Conference Lecture at 11 a.m. Oct. 1 in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series. The Olin Fellows Conference theme is “Walking the Poverty Line.” The lecture is free and open to the public; however, seating may be limited. Concerned and curious […]

Bass baritone Stephen Bryant will join forces with pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, for the Department of Music’s annual Liederabend at 3 p.m. Oct. 5 in the Gallery of Art’s Steinberg Auditorium. Literally translated as “evening of song,” “liederabend” is a German term referring to a recital given by a […]

A treat for both the ears and the eyes, the percussion ensemble performs on instruments built from recycled and salvaged materials.