Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear/And he shows them pearly white … So is introduced Macheath, the dapper bandit and notorious womanizer more infamously known as “Mack the Knife.” And thus begins The Threepenny Opera, a merciless send-up of operatic conventions, which will be presented by the Performing Arts Department Oct. 22 through 31.
This fall’s health fair, held from 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in the McDonnell Pediatric Research Building atrium at the School of Medicine, will include guidance on using a treadmill and proper shoe selection.
“Since the founding of the Peace Corps 50 years ago, international service programs have grown dramatically across the public, private and nonprofit sectors,” says Amanda Moore McBride, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School and expert on civic service as Research Director at the School’s Center for Social Development (CSD). To date, most research on the field of international service has focused solely on the volunteers themselves. While impacts on volunteers are important, CSD researches not only the impacts on volunteers but also the impacts on the host communities and organizations that they serve. In their most recent study, McBride and colleagues looked at the impact of international service on the development of volunteers’ international contacts and how those contacts, in turn, are used to further host community development around the world.
The world has been captivated by the amazing rescue of 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days in Chile. The miners’ survival and rescue were made possible by collaboration, says R. Keith Sawyer, PhD, associate professor of education and of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Sawyer is an expert on the science of creativity and collaboration.
High Performing Buildings Magazine Nature’s way: Tyson Living Learning Center Fall 2010 Washington University’s research and education center outside of St. Louis aims to meet goals of net zero energy and water use. Composting toilets require no water for flushing, and a rainwater harvesting and treatment system provides potable water. The building nearly reached net […]
The Washington University Human Research Protection Office has launched an Internet-based submission system that will allow researchers to submit human research studies to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) electronically.
Washington University’s Film & Media Archive will host Home Movie Day Saturday, Oct. 16, from noon-4 p.m. at the West Campus Library and Conference Center. Home Movie Day is an annual event that invites the public to share and learn to care for their home movies shot on Regular 8mm, Super 8mm or 16mm film.
Sociologist William Julius Wilson, PhD, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University and a leading authority on race and poverty in the United States, will deliver the biennial lecture for Washington University’s Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at 1:10 p.m. Oct. 19 in the Danforth University Center, Room 276.
