The Washington University Wind Ensemble will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in the University’s Graham Chapel. Dan Presgrave, instrumental music coordinator in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, directs the program, which includes music of Franz Joseph Haydn, Malcolm Arnold, Franz von Suppé and Gordon Jacob.
Mezzo soprano Jade Lin Hornbaker, a master’s candidate in vocal performance in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will present a graduate voice recital at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, in the auditorium of the Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering. The program includes music of Modest Mussorgsky, Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc and John Ireland.
A finding by School of Medicine researchers could allow them to seek new therapies and understand what goes wrong in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
Photo by Beth MillerTheodore Armstrong, a pre-doctoral fellow, and Jourdan Stuart, a first-year medical student, discuss a patient they examined with Will R. Ross, M.D., faculty supervisor, assistant professor of medicine and associate dean for diversity, at the Saturday Neighborhood Health Clinic in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood.School of Medicine students are learning about social medicine on Saturday mornings in Forest Park Southeast.
Dean Shapiro plans to give updates on the School of Medicine’s key initiatives, including the tobacco-free initiative, addressing pandemic flu, and the New Interstate 64 project.
The Financial Times has, for the first time, ranked the Executive M.B.A. program, a joint venture between the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and Shanghai-based Fudan University’s School of Management.
Deans and top administrators from Missouri’s seven medical higher education institutions have joined to urge the passage of the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.