Arts & Sciences

Unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteriaA team of researchers headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has sequenced the genome of a unique bacterium that manages two disparate operations — photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation — in one little cell during two distinct cycles daily.

Celebrated violinist Martin Chalifour, principal concertmaster for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will join musicians from Washington University and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for a chamber music recital at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 22.

A team of researchers headed by biologists at Washington University has sequenced the genome of a unique bacterium that manages two disparate operations — photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation — in one little cell during two distinct cycles daily.

Though no scores are included in his published works, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) frequently employed music in his plays, writing poems for new songs and adopting existing ballads. On Oct. 6 the acclaimed period music trio Ensemble Chaconne, joined by mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, will present “Measure for Measure: The Music of Shakespeare’s Plays,” a concert of works associated with the Bard, in the university’s Edison Theatre.

Clarinetist Scott Alberici and his quartet will launch Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11. The series, which has delighted local jazz enthusiasts since 1996, features professional jazz musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in Holmes Lounge — a casual, coffeehouse-style setting — most Thursday evenings at 8 p.m. […]

Clarinetist Scott Alberici and his quartet will launch Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11. The series, which began in 1996, features professional jazz musicians performing in Holmes Lounge — a casual, coffeehouse-style setting — most Thursday evenings.

Teddy PresbergAlton, IL, native Miles Davis helped invent the notion of “cool” with his groundbreaking album Birth of the Cool, a recording that also ushered in a whole new school of West Coast jazz. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will celebrate Davis’s legacy with a series of free Saturday afternoon jazz concerts with notable St. Louis musicians, each inspired by the work of a modern jazz master.

In this election year and with the Vice Presidential Debate Oct. 2, a host of programs, projects and panels have been developed to engage students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and neighbors in the electoral process.

Clarinetist Scott Alberici and his quartet will launch Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes Series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11. The series, which was launched in 1996, features professional jazz musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in Holmes Lounge — a casual, coffeehouse-style setting — most Thursday evenings throughout the fall and spring semesters.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are proposing to borrow a process used in breweries and wastewater treatment facilities to make corn ethanol more energy efficient. They are exploring the use of oxygen-less vats of microorganisms that naturally feed on organic waste produced from the ethanol fermentation process.