Entertaining the home crowd
Photo by Kevin LowderA record 1,200 families registered for Parents Weekend Oct. 15-17; activities included jazz in Holmes Lounge and a fashion show.
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Campus Watch
The following incidents were reported to University Police Oct. 6-19. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Oct. 9 9:03 p.m. — An officer […]
Art is for everyone
Photo by Joe AngelesThe Sam Fox Arts Center held the “Festival of the Arts” to spotlight construction of the Kemper Art Museum and Walker Hall.
Shining star
Photo by Mary ButkusNurse Marilyn Bennett won the Guiding Star Award, which is given annually to honor a clinical staff member at the medical school.
Chideya talk: ‘Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters’
Since beginning her career in journalism and broadcasting, Farai Chideya has focused on finding out the truth about what young American adults — especially those of color — believe and value. In an Assembly Series lecture Oct. 27, she will share her thoughts and discuss what young Americans can do to help remedy some of […]
Rising costs of health care pose huge challenges
National experts addressed the most pressing political issues in health care at the Oct. 7 “Health Care Challenges Facing the Nation” conference at the Washington University Medical Center. Prominent among the bevy of hot topics were discussions about limiting access to health care to help alleviate rapidly escalating health care costs. Read more in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article by Rachel Melcer.
Genome center is major contributor to ‘finished’ human genome sequence
Researchers at the School of Medicine and colleagues in the International Human Genome Sequencing Project have published their scientific description of the finished human genome, reducing the estimated number of human genes from 35,000 to only 20,000-25,000, a surprisingly low number for our species.
Reduced Shakespeare Company
The Reduced Shakespeare CompanyConfused by Confucius? Thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter or Tennyson tinier? Not to worry! The world renowned Reduced Shakespeare Company, those “bad boys of abridgement,” will return to Edison Theatre Nov. 19 and 20 for the St. Louis premiere of All the Great Books (abridged), an action-packed literary romp through everything you should have read in high school but probably didn’t.
Tony Earley
Acclaimed fiction writer Tony Earley, visiting Washington University as a Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will speak on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, and will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28.
John Danforth to give major policy address at WUSTL
John C. Danforth, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will deliver a major policy address at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in Graham Chapel. Danforth has a distinguished record of public service. Best-known for his 18-year run as Republican senator from Missouri, he also has served in a number of special capacities, most notably as special counsel to investigate the federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and as special envoy for peace to Sudan.