The Association of Black Students, in collaboration with Teach For America, will present a panel discussion titled “Bridging the Gap: America’s Education Crisis” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7 in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium.
Astronaut Walt Cunningham will share his experiences as Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, during a 3 p.m. talk Thursday, Oct. 7, in Washington University’s Brookings Hall, Room 300. He also will present Washington University in St. Louis senior Kaitlin E. Burlingame with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a public presentation and ceremony.
CBS News Neanderthals not so dim after all, experts say 10/05/2010 Scientists are broadly rethinking the nature, skills and demise of the Neanderthals of Europe and Asia, steadily finding more ways that they were substantially like us. Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis published research into prehistoric fossil remains in Europe that showed […]
Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall, the second building in a new engineering complex at Washington University in St. Louis, was dedicated in a ceremony held on Friday, Oct. 1. Brauer Hall includes state-of-the-art laboratories, a distance-learning classroom, instrumentation and imaging facilities, and electronically equipped collaboration points in the halls near the labs. The three-story building, which includes many other innovative features, has received LEED Gold certification.
Jon Meacham, former editor of Newsweek, will present “God and Politics: From George Washington to Barack Obama” at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, in Graham Chapel on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis with a book signing and reception to follow.
A genetic condition that increases risk of brain tumors may also impair development of the brain system that facilitates attention, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The School of Law is hosting a screening and discussion of the award-winning documentary “Off and Running” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. The event is free and open to the public. In “Off and Running,” filmmaker Nicole Opper chronicles the coming-of-age story of Avery, the adopted daughter of white Jewish lesbian parents and sister to two adopted brothers — one mixed-race and one Korean.
Washington University will simulate an emergency situation on its campuses the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 12, to help ensure the university is prepared should an actual emergency occur. Staff from participating departments throughout the Danforth, Medical, West and North campuses will participate in the drill.
G. Robert Blackburn, the first director of community and government relations at Washington University, died Sept. 20, 2010. He was 88. Blackburn was the university’s director of community and government relations from 1972-1992.
