The Interfaculty Initiative for American Indian Affairs (IIAA) is sponsoring the Witaya Lecture Series, a program that focuses on topics related to American Indian and Alaskan Native studies. Witaya means “coming together as a community” in the Lakota language. The series was scheduled to begin March 4 with a lecture by Puneet Sahota, an M.D./Ph.D. […]
Stephen D. Williamson, Ph.D., has been named the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences. Robert McCarter has been installed as the Ruth & Norman Moore Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Ahh … spring break. A time for relaxation, rejuvenation and fun. Or, for many WUSTL students, a time for hard work, reflection and a greater sense of purpose. Hundreds of students will spend the break, March 10-16, on service trips in places as far away as Buenos Aires, Argentina and as close as downtown St. Louis.
The St. Louis Regional Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (STLR-HERC) launched its Web site, stlrherc.org, announced Laurel Sgan, the STLR-HERC’s director. The Web site features a search engine of available positions at academic institutions throughout the St. Louis region. Also included on the Web site are resources for those interested in relocating to the St. Louis […]
The print Record will not be published next week due to spring break.
Any late-breaking news of importance to the WUSTL community will appear in the eRecord Monday, March 10.
Willie Cole, *Sole Brother 1*The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.
School of Medicine physicians and glaucoma researchers will join eye-care professionals around the world March 6 to observe the first World Glaucoma Day.
Photo by David KilperPeter J. Kastor, Ph.D., associate professor of history and of American culture studies, both in Arts & Sciences. He’s been known to launch a lecture with the “Davy Crockett” theme song, tap academic potential in students before they realize it in themselves and convert physics majors to scholars of the American frontier.
LegomskyA recent academic study confirmed empirically what many immigration experts had already suspected: The chance of winning an asylum case often hinges as much on the luck of the draw as on the merits of the case. Some adjudicators grant asylum liberally while others grant it only rarely, and the disparities are dramatic. The Stanford Law Review asked Stephen Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., leading immigration and asylum law expert and John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to write an article analyzing the policy implications of this study. Legomsky offers a controversial conclusion: “There are times when we simply have to learn to live with unequal justice because the alternatives are worse.”