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Celebrated architect Jeanne Gang, principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects in Chicago, will discuss her work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25. The talk, titled “High and Low,” is the school’s annual Coral Courts Lecture and will take place in Steinberg Hall Auditorium, located near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. A reception for Gang will precede the lecture, at 6 p.m. 

More than 175 undergraduate students are expected to showcase their research projects through poster presentations and visual and oral presentations during the fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Saturday, Oct. 23.

Legendary Harry Belafonte has been a part of American culture for so long and in so many roles that his name conjures up a variety of responses. Actor, singer, entertainer. But in recent years, his activism has evolved into taking a stand against what he perceives as misguided American policy and questioning the country’s moral authority. At 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, Belafonte will speak in Graham Chapel on “The Moral Direction of America” for the annual Black Arts and Sciences Festival Lecture. Also sponsored by the Assembly Series, the talk is free and open to the public.

Hindustan Times Get funded by top US varsities 10/19/2010 Many colleges and universities in the US are known for their generous merit scholarships and financial aid. Historically, international students from developing countries have benefited from these awards. A few colleges like the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and Washington University at St. Louis have announced […]

Marianne Hirsch, PhD, a member of the Holocaust “second generation” and co-author of Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz, will be on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, to deliver the Holocaust Memorial Lecture in Graham Chapel. The Assembly Series program, titled “Rites of Return: The Afterlife of the Holocaust in Jewish Memory,” is free and open to the public.

A media briefing with Jon Meacham, former editor of Newsweek, will be held at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26 in the Danforth University Center, Room 276.

A study of Missouri girls in foster care found that about half of them had become pregnant or had given birth by age 19. To address this startling statistic, Washington University is launching a regional pregnancy prevention program for this high-risk population. The project will serve an estimated 600 teens in foster care in the St. Louis region.

The Department of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will celebrate its 100th anniversary Thursday, Oct. 21, with a symposium from noon to 5 p.m. in the Moore Auditorium. Six of the department’s former heads, faculty or alumni have won Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine.

Parent & Family Weekend 2010 kicks off Friday, Oct. 22. Myriad activities are planned across campus as parents join their sons and daughters for a peek into their classes, walking tours, open houses, concerts, information sessions and much more.

University City Council member L. Michael Glickert (left) presents Michael Sherraden, PhD, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, with a proclamation during a city council meeting Oct. 18. The proclamation celebrates Sherraden, a University City resident, being named to the 2010 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.