The No. 3 women’s soccer team advanced to the Sweet 16 with a pair of victories at home last weekend. WUSTL advances to the sectional semifinals for the second-straight season and will take on No. 14 Concordia College (Moorhead) at 3 p.m. Friday at Francis Field. The Bears will host the NCAA Sectional for the first time in school history. In the other Sectional semifinal Friday, No. 2 Hardin-Simmons University will take on No. 11 Wheaton College (Ill.) at 5:30 p.m.
The region’s first maternal-fetal transport service that includes both obstetrics and pediatrics expertise is being launched this month by the School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s and Barnes-Jewish hospitals.
Nov. 12-16 is Geography Awareness Week at WUSTL. The Geographic Information Systems office at WUSTL is sponsoring a number of sessions highlighting resources available through the university. Attendees can learn how to organize, analyze and present spatial information.
On November 8, 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton announced the appointment of three new science envoys, including
Barbara Schaal, the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor of
Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. The science envoys travel in their capacity as private
citizens and advise the White House, the U.S. Department of State, and
the U.S. scientific community about the insights they gain from their
travels and interactions.
Acclaimed poet Carl Phillips will help relaunch WUSTL’s Modern Literature Reading Series when he does a reading of the late poet Robert Creeley’s work at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12. The event, which is sponsored by University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections, will also feature two master of fine arts students reading the work of two 20th-century poets.
Excitement is building at WUSTL in anticipation of hosting the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) next April. CGI U application workshops are under way and two graduate biology students are seeing their hard work from CGI U 2012 come to life through their initiativecalled ProSPER. The next CGI U application workshops are Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 12 and 13.
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., is now displaying Washington University-commissioned portraits of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Merrill and the late Howard Nemerov, former U.S. poet laureate and Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English in Arts & Sciences. The John M. Olin Library lent the circa 1955 Larry Rivers’ painting of […]
A student-organized meeting to discuss possible relief
efforts for those affected by Superstorm Sandy will be held from 4 to 5
p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13 in room 233 of the Danforth University Center.
All WUSTL students, staff, and faculty are welcome to attend, contribute
ideas, and get involved.
Angelina toils away for her two preening stepsisters. But when Prince Ramiro visits the household, disguised as a mere valet, it is love at first sight. In La Cenerentola, Gioachino Rossini offers a brisk, witty and emphatically non-supernatural variation on the traditional Cinderella story. On Nov. 15-16, the Washington University Opera Workshop will present excerpts from La Cenerentola and four other works in the 560 Music Center.
