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This Month In WUSTL History

This feature will be included in each 2003-04 issue of the Record in observance of Washington University’s 150th anniversary.

Petersen named McDonnell professor

Steven E. Petersen is congratulated by Chancellor Mark Wrighton and William A. Peck.Steven E. Petersen, a pioneering brain imaging researcher, is the first James S. McDonnell Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Humanities & Society

40 years later, most Americans focus on MLK’s ‘dream,’ not the reality

Forty years ago this month, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.Most Americans are familiar with the “I have a dream” passage of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous public address. But most have forgotten his admonishments, his criticism of America and the pressures he brought to bear through his message delivered on that sweltering August day 40 years ago, says a civil rights historian at Washington University in St. Louis. “Too often, that part of his speech is ignored, subsumed to the tranquil tones of ‘I have a dream …,'” says Leslie Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and of African and Afro-American studies, both in Arts & Sciences. For that reason, Brown says, four decades after the March on Washington and King’s renowned “I Have a Dream” speech, that dream is still not realized.

150! WUSTL reaches sesquicentennial

As part of the celebration, the University is launching an initiative to help better understand the role that research universities can play in addressing environmental issues.