They’ve shrunken Shakespeare, condensed Christmas, abbreviated the Bible and pruned and pared great works of poetry and prose. At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at Washington University’s Edison Theatre, The Reduced Shakespeare Company will tackle the subject it was born to abridge: “The Complete History of Comedy.”
The Association of College Unions International has
awarded the Danforth University Center the Bernard Pitts Role of the
College Union Award in recognition of its DUC Presents series and other
outstanding programming.
John N. Constantino, MD, the Blanche F. Ittelson Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the School of Medicine, has received the 2014 Irving Phillips Award for Prevention from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Internationally distinguished architect and teacher Nasrine Seraji will visit the campus of Washington University in St. Louis Friday, Nov. 7, to open the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts symposium “Women in Architecture: 1974-2014.” The Assembly Series lecture will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. A reception at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Election Day is difficult for many political candidates. But it’s no picnic for their supporters either. A new study co-authored by Olin Business School’s Lamar Pierce, PhD, shows just how tough election days can be. The study finds that winning elections barely improves the happiness of those from the winning political party.
Beau Ances, MD, PhD, is using the latest brain scanning techniques to better understand how long-term HIV infection impairs memory and other mental functions. He’s also applying his expertise in neuroimaging to Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative disorders.
Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished
Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering &
Applied Science is applying a novel time-reversal technology that allows
researchers to better focus light in tissue, such as muscles and
organs.
In 1974, Washington University students organized “Women in Architecture,” a groundbreaking symposium that drew hundreds of participants from around the country. Now the Sam Fox School is marking the symposium’s 40th anniversary with a three-day event that will celebrate the achievements of the last four decades but also explore what has, and hasn’t, changed.
Patients with tinnitus hear phantom noise and are
sometimes so bothered by the perceived ringing in their ears they have
difficulty concentrating. A new therapy does not lessen perception of
the noise but appears to help patients cope better with it in their daily lives, according to new research led by Jay Piccirillo, MD.
For the past year and a half, dedicated students, faculty and staff have come together through the university’s Mosaic Project to help move us toward a more inclusive campus community. Now, as this initiative is concluding, the efforts of the eight Mosaic Project working groups are taking root at the university.
