Arts & Sciences

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is rated the third best medical school in the nation, according to this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional programs released April 1.

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present A Concert on Women’s Mental Health at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The performance, which will feature compositions based on poems by Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, is free and open to the public and held in conjunction with the exhibition Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art.

Courtesy PhotoNeurology postdoctoral researcher Yan Hu, Ph.D. (right), discusses her poster presentation at the Inaugural Postdoc Scientific Symposium Feb. 23.In The Scientist magazine’s third annual “Best Places for Postdocs to Work” survey, WUSTL was No. 2 for U.S. academic institutions.

Photo by Kevin LowderAlberto del Saz, visiting Marcus Artist in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences’ Dance Program, leads a master class.

Events will include screenings of Eyes on the Prize episodes and a panel discussion about the significance of the series.

She has an interest in learning and memory, as well as the implications and applications of such research on educational instruction and policy.

Pianist and longtime Medtner champion Hugh Macdonald will give a concert April 3 in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

He had an international reputation as a geochemist and was one of the first planetary scientists to study rock samples taken from the moon.

LightmanAlan Lightman, popular novelist and MIT physicist, will deliver the ArtSci Council, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi Lecture for Washington University’s Assembly Series. His talk, “The Physicist as Novelist,” will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, in Graham Chapel.

RoedigerSome of the nation’s top memory researchers are meeting at Purdue University on March 25-27 to talk about the most important findings in the field and to honor one of their own. The conference, entitled “Roddyfest: Directions in Memory Research,” honors Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, a pioneer in memory research and former Purdue professor. Roediger is chair of the Department of Psychology in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL.