Four aspiring playwrights will present staged readings of their works Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25 and 26, as part of the 2009 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival, sponsored by the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.
School of Medicine nutrition researchers say body fat stored in the liver affects risk factors for diabetes, high blood triglycerides and cardiovascular disease.
A new tradition was started at the Arts & Sciences’ annual faculty reception, which was held Sept. 10 in Holmes Lounge. In addition to the usual introduction of new faculty at the beginning of the fall semester, two new awards that recognize the contributions of tenured faculty were presented to three faculty members during the reception.
Photo by Mary ButkusGary S. Wihl, Ph.D. (right), dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences, meets with Phyllis Goldberg, niece of the late Hortense and Tobias Lewin, after the Sept. 16 ceremony in which he was installed as the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities.
Amnon Rubinstein, a leading scholar on constitutional lawRubinsteinin Israel, will discuss Western culture and Israeli law in free public lectures Oct. 5 and Oct. 6 at Washington University in St. Louis. Rubinstein, a longtime member of the Israeli parliament and founding dean of the nation’s top-ranked law school, is a recipient of the prestigious “Israel Prize” for his work on constitutional law.