Arts & Sciences

The Washington University Chamber Choir and the Washington University Symphony Orchestra will present the show at 3 p.m. April 30 in Graham Chapel.

Schaal and Epstein are among 195 men and women elected this year by the academy, an organization formed in 1870 to cultivate the arts and sciences.

The Linguistic Profiling and Linguistic Human Rights conference will be held on campus April 28-29. Sponsored by African and African American Studies in Arts & Sciences and the Ford Foundation, the conference will explore issues surrounding legal considerations of linguistic profiling, fair housing, language restriction on the job and racial, sexual and deaf discrimination, among others.

Warner Bros. Entertainment*Duma*Washington University’s Center for the Humanities and Program in Film and Media Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will host a two-day symposium on Children’s Films and their audiences. Presented in conjunction with Cinema St. Louis, the event will feature a keynote address by Nicholas Sammond, author of Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 (2005), as well as screenings of the films Duma (2005) and Saving Shiloh (2006), the latter of which was shot in St. Louis last year.

Washington University in St. Louis was named one of the top three Best Places to Work in the St. Louis Business Journal’s annual survey of area employees. At a dinner and reception April 20 at The Westin Hotel, Washington University was named the best workplace in the large employer category.

The Washington University Chamber Choir and the Washington University Symphony Orchestra will present the 2005 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 30, in Graham Chapel. The concert will honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) with a performance of the composer’s popular Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339, for chorus and orchestra. Also on the program are the Russian Easter Festival Overture by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844—1908); and Symphony No. 2 (“The Romantic”) by Howard Hanson (1896-1981).

Max PucciarielloGiuseppe ScoteseRenowned Italian pianist Giuseppe Scotese will present a piano recital featuring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) at 8 p.m. Monday, May 1, in Graham Chapel. The program will juxtapose parallel works by Bach and Busoni, the latter of whom is probably best known for his grand transcriptions of Bach’s organ music for the modern piano. (Vladimir Horowitz and other great 20th century pianists regularly included Busoni’s transcriptions in their concert repertoire.)

“Incorporating more frequent classroom testing into a course may improve students’ learning and promote retention of material long after a course has ended,” Roddy Roediger says.

It’s dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth “Ibby” Gray Danforth, the University’s first lady for nearly a quarter century, and Sona Haydon, a longtime lecturer.

Four panelists will discuss challenges and career barriers for women in public service and participate in a question-and-answer session April 19 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.