First day is a blast for first-year students
The First Year Center offered free snacks and school supplies to freshmen on the first day of class. Volunteers also snapped photos to send home.
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Obituary: Victoria “Vicky” Holtschlag, laboratory manager, 58
Victoria “Vicky” Holtschlag, a laboratory manager in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Immunology and at Siteman Cancer Center, died Sunday, June 30, 2013, from an illness. She was 58.
Poet Carl Phillips to read Sept. 5
“I have a candidate for the author of the most interesting contemporary English sentences,” wrote Dan Chiasson in The New Yorker last spring. The candidate? “The American poet Carl Phillips.” On Thursday, Sept. 5, Phillips, professor of English and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences, will launch the Writing Program’s fall Reading Series.
New Climate Change Initiative to be led by Peter Raven
Washington University in St. Louis is launching a
new Climate Change Initiative aimed at expanding scientific
research, education and public understanding of global climate change. A
signature initiative of the International Center for Advanced Renewable
Energy and Sustainability, the initiative will be led by Peter
H. Raven, PhD, the George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus and President
Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
U.S. military involvement may not deter Syria, but necessary step, says lecturer on war, foreign policy
The United States must take military action against Syria, even though it may not deter Syria or other “belligerent nations” from using weapons of mass destruction, suggests Krister Knapp, PhD, a senior lecturer in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Obituary: Richard M. Kurtz, former director of psychology clinical training, 76
Richard M. Kurtz, PhD, associate professor emeritus of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. He was 76 and residing in Cincinnati.
Obituary: Bernard Becker, former head of ophthalmology, 93
Solicitor General Verrilli to Deliver Tyrrell Williams Lecture Sept. 9
Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the 46th solicitor general of
the United States, will deliver the 2013–14 Tyrrell Williams Lecture at 4
p.m. Sept. 9 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (AB Hall, No.
310). He will speak on “The Solicitor General and Civil Rights Law:
Historical Perspectives. Read more about Solicitor General Verrilli and RSVP for the event here.
Fraternities host frozen yogurt event for charity
Alpha Delta Phi and Alpha Kappa Psi will be hosting an all-you-can eat frozen yogurt buffet from 3-6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, on the South 40 Swamp.
Women in IT leadership program seeks student applicants
“SPIN-IT: A Leadership Program for Women in IT” is accepting student applications through Tuesday, Sept. 3. The program aims to encourage and support female staff members and students who are interested in technology careers.