Media Credential Information for Oct. 8 Presidential Debate

The Commission on Presidential Debates’ deadline for credentialing for the October 8 debate has expired. The Commission will no longer be credentialing media for the debate in the Athletic Complex. However, media who want to be on campus October 7 and October 8 for other debate-related activities, Washington University in St. Louis will be issuing […]

International Students for Interviews

The following Washington University international students are available for comment to the media. Please use the direct contact information listed for each student. Also: Student Leaders at the Debate Available for Interviews Also: Students with Tickets to the Debate Available for Interviews Also: Medical Students Available for Interviews Name Country Field of Study Phone E-mail […]

MEDIA ADVISORY

A media briefing on physical and technological transformation of Washington University’s Field House into a “Town Hall” setting for the second presidential debate will be held at the university’s Athletic Complex at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4. • St. Louis County Police Press Release

On Translating Opera

Hugh MacdonaldHugh Macdonald, the Avis Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will launch the Center for the Humanities’ 2004-05 Translation Series with a talk “On Translating Opera” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1.

Molecular motor implicated in tissue remodeling

A well-known enzyme present in the skin and other tissues turns out to be a molecule-sized motor that extracts its fuel from the road it runs on, according to researchers at the School of Medicine. Their discovery appears in the Oct. 1 issue of Science.

Debate exhibitions

• Also see the Debate events calendar The Presidential Image: 60 Years of the Best in White House Photography Through Oct. 11. Lobby of John M. Olin Library, Lvl. 1, Viewable during library hours. This exhibition presents 68 prize-winning photographs of presidents from Franklin Roosevelt through George W. Bush. Contact: Andrew Clendennen. Office of Public […]

Campus Watch

There is no Campus Watch for this issue of the Record.

Engineers aim to improve defibrillators

Photo by David KilperCrystal Ripplinger and Igor Efimov discuss their work on implantable defibrillators in Efimov’s laboratory.Smaller devices would free cardiac patients from the discomfort and danger of having to have it replaced frequently.

Exhibitions, book trace development of comics

Original cover art, “Love and Rockets” #15There is no shortcut from popular art to cultural respectability, but few have wandered longer than comic book, which has only recently begun to receive its critical and scholarly due. In October, the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics, a book and a pair of complementary exhibitions that together trace the evolution of comics from early precursors in 18th and 19th century England and Switzerland to turn-of-the-last-century newspapers, the raucous undergrounds of the 1960s and ’70s and the literary alternative comics of today.