Last year, the National Collegiate Athletic
Association required all aluminum bats used in college play to meet a
new performance standard designed to limit the exit speed of the ball
off the bat. This year, the National Federation of State High School
Associations also has implemented the new standard. With spring training beginning at all levels this month, a WUSTL professor and WUSTL baseball coaches comment on the new bats and how they have affected play.
The American public exhibits deep partisan divisions
about the direction that federal fiscal policy should take, finds a new
national survey from the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The American Panel Survey will take place monthly, and will measure shifts in attitudes over time.
Peter Gizzi’s poetry practically vibrates with tensions — between the lyrical and the abstract, joy and grief, interior and exterior. In Threshold Songs, his fifth and most recent collection, the writer is at once elegiac and experimental, building poems and shaping meanings from the rhythms and collisions of words and language even as he mourns a string of personal losses. On Thursday, Feb. 23, Gizzi, the Visiting Hurst Professor of Poetry, will read from his work as part of The Writing Program’s spring Reading Series.
Naoko Akimoto has been named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. Akimoto earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Tokyo, which is one of 27 premier universities from around the world partnered with Washington University in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Antonio Henrique Berno Zanutto has been named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. Zanutto earned two degrees from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), which is one of 27 premier universities from around the world partnered with Washington University in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Chen Li, from Wenzhou, China, has been named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. Chen earned degrees from the National University of Singapore and Chinese University of Hong Kong, which are two of the 27 premier universities from around the world partnered with Washington University in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Leandro Medina de Oliveira, from São Paulo, Brazil, has been named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. Medina de Oliveira earned a degree from the State University of Campinas, which is one of 27 premier universities from around the world partnered with Washington University in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Li Weijie, from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, has been named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. Li earned a degree from Fudan University, which is one of 27 premier universities from around the world partnered with Washington University in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Li Yunzi, from Guangzhou, China, has been named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. Li earned a degree from the University of Hong Kong, which is one of 27 premier universities from around the world partnered with Washington University in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Lin Chih-Chung, of the Hsintian District, New Taipei City, Taipei, has been named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. Lin earned a degree from the National Taiwan University, which is one of 27 premier universities from around the world partnered with Washington University in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.