Arts & Sciences

Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother 40 whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41 So goes the well-known nursery rhyme, though the victims were actually Borden’s father and stepmother. And more than 100 years after that infamous double murder, Borden — who was acquitted of the […]

Jean Allman became the inaugural holder of the J.H. Hexter Professorship in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences Feb. 12 in a ceremony in Holmes Lounge. The professorship was established by a grant from the Danforth Foundation to recognize distinguished faculty members in the humanities.

Below is a link to the Washington University news release about the U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings for 2004-05: http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/3627.html To view a full listing of U.S. News magazine, book and Web-only rankings for 2004-05, please visit the U.S. News & World Report site: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

Below is a link to the Washington University news release about the U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings for 2004-05: http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/3627.html To view a full listing of U.S. News magazine, book and Web-only rankings for 2004-05, please visit the U.S. News & World Report site: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

Learning something once, like the fact that “berg” means “mountain” in German, and studying it over and over again may do little to help you remember it in the future. The key to future recall, suggests a new study from Washington University in St. Louis, is how often over time you actively practice retrieving that information from memory.

The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering continues its series of seminars and workshops on the topic of reducing the damage that would occur if a strong earthquake strikes the New Madrid fault area again. The first program covered subjects of hazards, codes, vulnerability and strengthening of infrastructure. The speakers were practicing engineers and […]

Photo by David KilperThis month, the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present a new production of the prototypical “situation comedy” titled “She Stops to Conquer” in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre. Performances begin at 8 p.m. Feb. 22 and 23 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 24. Performances continue the following weekend at 8 p.m., Feb. 29 and March 1 and at 2 p.m. March 2.

Researchers at WUSTL and Arizona State University have sequenced the genome of a rare bacterium that harvests light energy by making an even rarer form of chlorophyll, chlorophyll d. Chlorophyll d absorbs “red edge,” near infrared, long wave length light that is invisible to the naked eye. In so doing, the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina competes with virtually no other plant or bacterium in the world for sunlight.

Jarvis A. Thurston, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English and former chair of Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, died Feb. 4 of heart disease at his home in University City. He was 93.

Debra Hillabrand as Lizzie Borden.”Lizzie Borden took an ax/ And gave her mother 40 whacks. / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father 41.” So goes the well-known nursery rhyme. This month, the Washington University Opera, led by director Jolly Stewart, will explore the characters and conflicts that may (or may not) have caused Borden to snap with a new production of Jack Beeson’s acclaimed operatic adaptation, Lizzie Borden.