Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is among the most celebrated Irish poets of her generation and arguably the foremost female poet today writing in Ireland and Great Britain. Next week, Ní Chuilleanáin, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will present two events as part of The Writing Program’s spring Reading Series
The New York Times Books from Jefferson’s library turn up after more than a century 02/22/2011 A literary detective story that began 18 months ago and was advanced through a chance reading of an 1880 edition of The Harvard Register has led researchers to a trove of books that were among the last ones collected […]
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Washington University in St. Louis announced the discovery by Monticello scholars that a collection of books, long held in the libraries at WUSTL, originally were part of Thomas Jefferson’s personal library.
Students who have a passion for collecting books can compete for prizes of $1,000 or $500 by entering the 24th annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition. Sponsored by Washington University Libraries, the Neureuther competition offers prizes to four students who write short essays about their personal book collections.
Rafael Moneo is arguably the most celebrated Spanish architect working today, known for innovative modern buildings that deftly navigate even the most challenging urban sites while preserving and respecting the existing environments. At 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28, Moneo will discuss his work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ spring Public Lecture Series.
Praised as “one of the finest players of his generation” by the Moscow’s Kommersant Daily, Scottish pianist Kenneth Hamilton is renowned for his spectacular performances of Romantic music, particularly the work of Franz Liszt (1811-86). On Feb. 26, Hamilton will mark the 200th anniversary of Liszt’s birth with a solo piano recital titled “Liszt and His Contemporaries: A Pianistic Panorama” and take part in a free symposium organized by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences.
NBC TODAY Show Thomas Jefferson books discovered 2/21/2011 Ann Lucas from the International Center for Jefferson Studies and Shirley Baker, Washington University Dean of Libraries, talk about the discovery of 74 books belonging to Thomas Jefferson. These books, held at the university’s libraries for 131 years, have been confirmed by Monticello scholars as having belonged […]
Scientists have decoded the DNA of the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis, a disease linked to eating raw or undercooked pork or carnivorous wild game animals, such as bear and walrus.
Daniel Moran, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering and neurobiology in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, is developing brain-computer interfaces based on grids of electrodes that lie beneath the skull but outside the dura mater, the protective membrane that covers the brain. His next project is to slip a thin 32-electrode grid he designed with a colleague under a macaque’s skill and to train the monkey to control — strictly by thinking about it — a computational model of a macaque arm.
