Photo by Andrew Cutraro / Post DispatchApril, 6, 2003 — Embedded Post-Dispatch Journalists Andrew Cutraro, right, and Ron Harris pose after filing stories with the Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines in Salman Pak, Iraq.St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalists Ron Harris and Andy Cutraro worked together as a team of journalists embedded with the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, as the unit fought its way from Kuwait to Baghdad in the recent war with Iraq. Their reports and photographs appeared frequently in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Join them as they share stories and photographs about coverage of the war at 7 p.m. May 8 in Brown Hall, Room 100.
One of Washington University’s most dedicated alumni volunteers, Marie Prange Oetting, was awarded the William Greenleaf Eliot Society “Search” Award at the Society’s 36th annual dinner, held on April 30 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton.
From the 2000 debate at WUSTL, then Gov. Bush answers a question while V.P. Gore looks on.Washington University is one of 14 sites around the country being considered to host one of the fall 2004 presidential debates, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates.
More than two-dozen scholars and veterans from around the country will remember the United States’ so-called “forgotten war” with “The Coldest War in the Cold War: The Blood and Politics of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953.” The three-day conference, which takes place May 8-10, is sponsored by Washington University’s International Writers Center (IWC) in Arts & Sciences, in conjunction with the Missouri Historical Society. Events will include lectures, film screenings and panel discussions on such topics as the origins and impact of the war, the experience of minority soldiers and the larger framework of the Cold War in America.
Christine Yeh updates Brian K. Dieckgraefe on her research project.Funded by a consortium of pharmaceutical firms, 11 medical school residents have received grants to conduct basic and clinical research.