McLeanBethany McLean, the Fortune magazine reporter who was the first to question how the energy giant, Enron, made its money, will give a talk based on her book, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron at 11 a.m. on Wed., Sept. 8 in Graham Chapel.
Taking its cue from the most significant political event – the Presidential Debate — to occur at the university this fall, the Washington University Assembly Series will feature several speakers with a politically related or election-oriented focus.
A colony of 28 day-old *Physcomitrella patens* grown in laboratory culture showing the green, leafy shoots in the center, with fine, radiating protonemal filaments growing outward.Washington University in St. Louis will be involved directly with sequencing the entire genome of the moss, Physcomitrella patens, at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in Walnut Creek, Calif. The Community Sequencing Program at the United States Department of Energy chose a proposal submitted by Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., Spencer T. Olin Professor and Washington University biology department chair, and Brent Mishler, Ph.D., professor of integrative biology and director of the Jepson Herbaria at the University of California, Berkeley, to sequence the plant’s DNA.
St. Louis saxophonist Freddie Washington will launch Washington University’s eighth annual Jazz at Holmes series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9. The series features professional jazz musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in a relaxed coffeehouse-style setting most Thursday evenings throughout the school year.
Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo Services”Tell Me Somethin’ Good”The St. Louis Black Repertory Company will open its 28th season with an updated performance of Tell Me Somethin’ Good, one of their most popular productions, Sept. 8 to 19 in Washington University’s Edison Theatre.
Cast list and production credits for The St. Louis Black Repertory Company’s updated production of Tell Me Somethin’ Good at Washington University’s Edison Theatre Sept. 8 to 19.
The Washington University Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will mark the centenary of the 1904 World’s Fair by including works performed at the fair in concerts throughout its fall season. The season will be launched Sept. 7 by the Washington University Chamber Orchestra.
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