Introducing new faculty members

The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.

Between the stacks

Photo by Alison CarrickWUSTL film archivist David Rowntree (right) speaks to students from New York University’s Moving Image Archivists Program as they tour the WUSTL Film & Media Archive’s climate-controlled vault at the West Campus Library. The students visited WUSTL Nov. 4 as part of the 2009 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference in St. Louis Nov. 4-7.

Of note

Rudolf Husar, Ph.D., Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., D.C. Rao, Ph.D., and more…

Panel to discuss choices for women Nov. 17

Women undergraduate and graduate students can discuss post-graduation choices and how to attain a successful, fulfilling life at “Composing a Life” from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Whitaker Hall Auditorium. The discussion, hosted by the Women’s Society of Washington University, will feature five women with career experience in an array of fields from graphic […]

Roger Rees brings one-man show on Shakespeare to Edison

At 8 p.m. Nov. 20 at Edison Theatre, Roger Rees, a 22-year veteran of television, movies and the Royal Shakespeare Company, comes to campus with “What You Will,” a side-splitting one-man-show that combines the Bard’s greatest soliloquies with colorful observations about the acting life and offbeat tales of theatrical disaster.

It’s in the jeans

Photo by Joe AngelesStephen F. Brauer (left), James M. McKelvey, Ph.D. (center), former dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Camilla T. Brauer tour the new engineering building on the Danforth Campus Oct. 30. The 150,875-square-foot building will be called Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Hall and is on schedule to be completed by spring 2010.

Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new study says

Were dinosaurs “warm-blooded” like present-day mammals and birds, or “cold-blooded” like present day lizards? The implications of this simple-sounding question go beyond deciding whether or not you’d snuggle up to a dinosaur on a cold winter’s evening. In a study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has found strong evidence that many dinosaur species were probably warm-blooded.