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This Week In WUSTL History

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

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Hoffmann to speak

Poet and Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann will present the William C. Ferguson Memorial Lecture, titled “One Culture or the Commonalities and Differences Between the Arts and Sciences,” at 4 p.m. April 13 in Graham Chapel. Though he is best known as a chemist, Hoffmann also is a published poet. In his talk, he will […]

Iranian author Nafisi to speak for Assembly Series

As an antidote to being forced to cover themselves, being denied basic freedoms and living in fear of arrest, imprisonment and worse, they came together to read Nabokov, James, Fitzgerald and Austen. “They” were Azar Nafisi, an Iranian professor, and several of her brightest female students, who secretly met once a week to find solace […]

Calendar

Exhibits American Art of the 1980s: Selections From the Broad Collections. Through April 18. Gallery of Art. 935-5423. American Art on Paper From 1960s to the Present. Through April 18. Gallery of Art. 935-5423. Painting America in the 19th Century. Through April 18. Gallery of Art. 935-5423. History of Adult Education at Washington University, 1854-2004. […]

April Fools

Photo by William MathewsSecond-year law student Gina Mitten took over as “Dean for a Day” April 1 at the School of Law.

Bridge work at Big Bend and parkway to continue

Due to the rainy weather in March, the installation of temporary bridges at Big Bend Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway that was scheduled to begin March 26 was pushed back. The work was rescheduled for the weekends of April 2 and April 9. Motorists who use Big Bend are encouraged to use an alternate route. […]

Softball’s Sagartz tosses perfect game

From April 1-3, the No. 3 softball team went 2-1, suffering its first defeat of the season. On April 1, freshman pitcher Laurel Sagartz threw the first perfect game in WUSTL history on her 19th birthday as the Bears won at Missouri Baptist University, 3-0. Sagartz struck out six as she improved to 7-0. On […]

Loebs establish professorship

They made the commitment to honor and thank local physicians with clinical excellence and to encourage teaching that excellence.