All welcome at birthday party
With more than 200 activities and events planned, the 150th Birthday Pary Sept. 14 will offer something of interest to everyone.
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This Week In WUSTL History
This feature will run in each 2003-04 issue of the Record as part of the observance of Washington University’s 150th anniversary.
Bollinger to address principle of academic freedom
Lee C. Bollinger, president and professor of law at Columbia University, will deliver the inaugural fall Assembly Series lecture at 11 a.m. Sept. 10 in Graham Chapel. His talk, “The Foundations of the Principle of Academic Freedom,” also is the School of Law’s Sesquicentennial Lecture. Bollinger is a graduate of the University of Oregon and […]
Lecture series marks year of University’s founding
They are part of a free, noncredit short course called “Remembering 1853: A Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Humanities.”
Sept. 11 memorial gathering
A Sept. 11, 2001, memorial gathering will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 in Graham Chapel. The gathering will be a brief coming-together of the campus community to reflect on the tragic events of two years ago and look forward to peace. James E. McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College […]
New Web site for product licencing
A “Licensed Suppliers” page has been added to the University’s Product Licensing Web site. The purpose of the site is to expand the services offered to the University community by the Office of Public Affairs’ product licensing office. Members of the University can access through this page a list of service-oriented suppliers of imprinted merchandise […]
New age of Chinese ceramics: Chinese Ceramics Today at Des Lee Gallery Sept. 5-30
The show features more than 50 works by 23 of China’s finest contemporary practitioners; it opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. today.
Inscriptions of Time: Alan Cohen photographs at Gallery of Art
“Cohen’s world is a world of ongoing catastrophe, in which natural and manmade disasters seem to radiate triumphant,” said guest curator Lutz Koepnick.
Grace under pressure
Not long ago, Diana L. Gray, M.D., gently told a young teacher expecting her first child that without fetal interventive surgery, her unborn baby boy most likely would not survive. Gray was faced with the most difficult aspect of being an obstetrical geneticist. She had to explain that an expanding cyst was compressing the baby’s […]
Irish literary scholar Kiberd to launch fall Writing Program Reading Series
Declan Kiberd, one of the world’s preeminent scholars of modern Irish literature, will launch the University’s fall Writing Program Reading Series in Arts & Sciences with a pair of talks. On Sept. 9, Declan will speak on “Ireland: A Case of Masked Modernity?” On Sept. 11, he will address “The City in Irish Writing.” Both […]