Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has been named Citizen of the Year, an award sponsored by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Wrighton was chosen by a committee of past winners of the award and was profiled in the Jan. 6 issue of the Post-Dispatch.
Courtesy photoWashington University Parking & Transportation Services and Enterprise Rent-A-Car have partnered to bring WeCar, a car-sharing program, to the Danforth Campus.
David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesThe Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present Naomi Wallace’s “The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek,” a poignant and erotically charged coming-of-age tale Jan. 24-27 in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre in the Mallinckrodt Student Center.
The marriage between jazz and tango was virtually unheard of 30 years ago — until pianist Pablo Ziegler burst onto the music scene, seamlessly combining the sultry tango rhythms with the energetic spontaneity of jazz. At 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, the Pablo Ziegler Quintet for New Tango — joined by special guest Claudia Acuña […]
Two nationally recognized law professors who served on the legal team representing Anita Hill during the Justice Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and the author of “Guantanamo: What the World Should Know” are part of the spring lineup for the School of Law’s 10th annual Public Interest Law and Policy Speakers Series. Titled “Access to Justice: […]
Whitney CurtisKathryn Miller, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, conducts the session “One Approach to Teaching an Upper-Level, Writing-Intensive Course” for a room of professors and educators during ITeach 2008 on Jan. 10.
Senior Troy Ruths scored a game-high 26 points to lead the No. 7 men’s basketball team to a 76-50 win in its University Athletic Association (UAA) opener against the University of Chicago Jan. 12. Go to BearSports The win was the Bears’ 22nd consecutive at home, tying the school’s all-time record, a streak that was […]
Margaret Walker Skinner, Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology and director of the Cochlear Implant and Hearing Rehabilitation Program, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital after a long illness. She was 72.
At its winter meeting on Friday, Dec. 7, the Board of Trustees elected William T. Shearer, M.D., Ph.D., as a board member, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Shearer is professor of pediatrics and immunology at Baylor College of Medicine, chief of the allergy and immunology service at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston and a 1970 graduate of the School of Medicine.
The Gephardt Institute for Public Service has announced the recipients of its first Community-Based Teaching and Learning Faculty Grants Program. Community-based teaching and learning, also known as service-learning, is embraced by schools and departments across Washington University. Key elements of service-learning include faculty oversight, learning activities in service to an organization or community and course […]