Newsroom Stories

She was installed Sept. 4 at the Knight Center; Reuben C. Taylor Jr. established the professorship in 1986.

Writer, publisher and acclaimed poet C.D. Wright — “one of America’s oddest, best and most appealing poets” according to Publisher’s Weekly — will read from her work at 8 p.m. Oct. 2 in Hurst Lounge (Duncker Hall, Room 201) as part of the Fall Reading Series. Wright is the author of 10 volumes of poetry, […]

Photo by Mary ButkusFour of the University’s Rhodes Scholars return to the Hilltop Campus to share their experiences and words of wisdom.

Photo by Kevin LowderOlin School of Business Dean Stuart I. Greenbaum and Fudan University’s Zheng Zukang give a champagne toast at a commencement celebration.

S.P. Sukhatme, chair of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board in India, will lecture on alternate energy sources; a panel discussion will follow.

The Division of Urologic Surgery will host a talk by cancer survivor Richard Howe Nov. 12 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

Acclaimed children’s author Katherine Paterson, who wrote of Bridge to Terabithia, will host a pair of events for the 2003-04 Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences’ Writers Series Nov. 17-18. At 8 p.m. Nov. 17, Paterson will read from her work in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 204. At 4 p.m. Nov. 18, she will […]

A conclusion that stands the ecological world on its head: The previous year’s drought is what causes high mosquito populations to come out of wetlands the following year.

Photo by Bob BostonDavid C. and Betty Farrell cut a cake at the Oct. 30 groundbreaking ceremony for the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

Patricia Sacks Fingert; Louis Cook Peltier; Betty Perry.