Fiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell to read for Writing Program Reading Series Oct. 6

Courtesy photoBonnie Jo CampbellFiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, for the Writing Program Reading Series. Campbell is the author Q Road (2002), named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book, and the collection Women & Other Animals (1999), which won the prestigious Associated Writing Programs prize for short fiction.

WUSTL statement on personal Web page guidelines

Washington University Web guidelines allow personal pages produced by students, graduates, faculty or staff members. The university does not monitor these personal pages and is not responsible for their content. As long as personal Web pages comply with local, state and federal law — and do not involve copyright infringement, constitute libel or harassment, contain […]

Aquarius redux

David Kilper*Hair*Break out the love beads and buckskin fringe. Hair is back. Subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, Hair was one of the most popular and controversial plays of the 1960s, a Broadway smash for the “sex, drugs and rock-and-roll” generation, sparking radio hits and national protests. In October, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will revive this countercultural classic as its fall Mainstage production.

From designing to developing projects

The first time Jerry Sincoff designed a house, he failed. Literally. As a ninth-grader at Hanley Junior High in University City, Sincoff — a voracious draftsman with an affinity for buildings and rocket ships — was required to enter the inaugural Greater St. Louis Science Fair. Instead of a science display, he submitted a conceptual […]

‘Science on Tap’

Michael E. Wysession will open the series Sept. 28 with a talk on “The Sumatra Earthquake: Could It Happen Here?”