Eliot Day to honor University founder

Feb. 23 is “William Greenleaf Eliot Day”; it will feature two lectures on him, as well as a release and signing of the pictorial history book.

Campus Authors: Hugh Chaplin

Lenabell tells the story of a woman with sickle cell disease — including her experimental failures as well as near-miraculous successes.

Construction Update: Information on projects

Construction Update is published periodically and provides information about the progress of major building and renovation projects. Information is provided to the Record by facilities management. Earth and Planetary Sciences Building The masonry work continues with the granite and limestone facade. The roofing is complete. Partition framing continues on all levels, and dry-wall and painting […]

Picturing our Past

For more than 50 years, the Assembly Series has brought some of the most important voices in contemporary society to campus, including the 14th Dalai Lama (above) in September 1993. The Dalai Lama is the head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The spring 2004 Assembly Series kicked off with Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

American Music of the 1980s

Photograph © Douglas M. Parker StudioJean-Michel Basquiat *Horn Players* 1983 Acrylic and oil paintstick on three canvas panels, 96 x 75Works by contemporary composers John Adams, Emma Diemer, William Bolcom and saxophonist Anders Lundegaard will highlight a concert of American Music of the 1980s at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, at the Washington University Gallery of Art.