The Washington University Opera will perform close to a dozen excerpts from eight well-known operas at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, as part of its “Opera Circus” concert. The program will include selections by Beethoven, Donizetti, Mozart, Humperdinck, Bizet, Lehar, Hoiby and Strauss.
Harriet Hosmer, *Oenone* (1854-55)Neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908) was one of the most successful women artists of her day, described by the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning as “a perfectly emancipated female.” She was also the first woman to study anatomy at what would become the Washington University School of Medicine and produced many of her most significant works — such as the bronze statue of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton in Lafayette Park — for St. Louis patrons. This summer the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will join other local institutions in celebrating Hosmer’s life and work with a special Teaching Gallery exhibition, on view May 2 to July 21.
The Office of Student Activities is sponsoring a naming contest for the five dining venues to be located on the main level of the Danforth University Center, scheduled to open for the fall 2008 semester. Both undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents of current students and friends of the University are eligible to […]
A leading historian of religion was installed as the first Stella Koetter Darrow Professor in Catholic Studies in Arts & Sciences March 18 in Holmes Lounge. Daniel M. Bornstein, Ph.D., joined Washington University last fall with a joint appointment in religious studies and history, both in Arts & Sciences. He is a scholar whose broad […]
The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir will present the 2008 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, the concert is free and open to the public and will take place in the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall. Dan Presgrave, […]
Four local nonprofits were honored at an awards dinner April 17 for the third annual Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (SEIC). The teams will receive a total of $110,000 in cash and in-kind support for successfully demonstrating that their ventures have social value and that their group has the ability to implement its plans. Partners […]
Michael Spivey has been named the new assistant dean for career services, strategy and marketing at the School of Law, announced Kent D. Syverud, J.D., dean and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor. Spivey, associate director for admissions at Vanderbilt Law School, was named to the position at the University after a national search conducted […]
The women’s track team outlasted the University of Chicago to capture its eighth straight University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Championship April 20 in Chicago. The Bears finished the two-day meet with 259 points, while Chicago compiled 243.5 team points. The men’s team finished fourth out of seven teams at the meet. Junior Danielle Wadlington was […]
Photo by Kevin LowderAt the William Greenleaf Eliot Society banquet April 9, the former dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work received the society’s “Search” award. Shanti K. Khinduka, Ph.D., the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor, was presented with the society’s top honor by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.
Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the department of English and director of the Center for the Humanities, both in Arts & Sciences, has received a $73,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Education Programs. The grant will fund “The Impact of Jazz on American Life,” an NEH Faculty Humanities Workshop for K-12 teachers.