Since the early 20th century, avant-garde writers, artists and composers have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental. Next week, the Department of Music and the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department (PAD), both in Arts & Sciences, and the Mil-dred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a concert exploring the […]
The University’s Bear Cub Fund is soliciting grant applications from University researchers who want to move inventions from their laboratories toward commercialization. The fund supports innovative translational research not normally backed by federal grants. Any WUSTL faculty member, postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or employee may apply.
“The State of the LGBT Movement,” a presentation by Matthew Coles, will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, September 30, in the Anheuser-Busch School of Law Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom. It is free and open to the public.
John CageSince the early 20th century avant-garde writers, artists and composers have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental. Next week the Department of Music and the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department, both in Arts & Sciences, along with the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a concert exploring the use of chance in modern and contemporary music. The performance — held in conjunction with the exhibition Chance Aesthetics, now on view at the Kemper Art Museum — is free and open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall.
RobinsLee Nelken Robins, professor emeritus of social science in psychiatry at the School of Medicine, died peacefully at her home Sept. 25, 2009, following a long battle against cancer. Robins was a world leader in psychiatric epidemiology research and had worked in the Department of Psychiatry for more than 50 years.
Cancer survivor Kathy Ferrara and daughter Natalie continue their dialogue after participating in StoryCorps, a national oral history and research project.Cancer is a difficult diagnosis to acknowledge — especially what a parent with can-cer must explain. A StoryCorps project captures the emotional stories of survivors and may help others to say what must be said.
A group of pregnant women who have asthma or allergies will get extra vitamin D as part of a study to determine if the vitamin can prevent their children from developing asthma.
Richard Chole, a surgeon and chairman of otolaryngology, is also an inventor whose garage creations include a wristband warning system to prevent wrong-site surgeries and a surgical device that allows less invasive surgery on pituitary tumors.
The new faculty who were introduced at the Arts & Sciences annual faculty reception are: Roshan Abraham, Ph.D., assistant professor, classics and religious studies; William Acree, Ph.D., assistant professor, Romance languages and literatures; Pannill Camp, Ph.D., assistant professor, performing arts; Shefali Chandra, Ph.D., assistant professor, history and international and area studies; Frederick Eberhardt, assistant professor, […]
Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease makes Alzheimer’s brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at the School of Medicine report online this week in Science Express.