Arts & Sciences

Eric WoolseyChristena Doggrell in “Six Seconds in Charlack”For St. Louis commuters, the small inner-ring suburb of Charlack, Mo., passes in the blink of an eye, its borders marked by a pair of signs set only a few hundred yards apart along I-170. Yet as Brian Golden’s Six Seconds in Charlack reminds us, sometimes an instant is enough to change a life. The drama — winner of Washington University’s 2004 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition — will be presented by the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences April 28 to May 1.

The William Greenleaf Eliot Society’s highest honor, the Search Award, was awarded to John F. McDonnell and Sam Fox at the 38th annual Eliot Society dinner held April 13 at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton.

The Department of Art History and Archaeology in Arts & Sciences will present Exploring the History of Art, a symposium honoring Mark S. Weil, Ph.D., at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building. Weil, the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts as well as director of the Sam Fox Arts Center and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, is retiring this June. He has been associated with Washington University for 47 years.

Pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, will dedicate the music department’s new grand piano in Graham Chapel with a concert of works by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Clara Schumann (1819-1896).

Photo by Kevin LowderThe Graduate Student Research Symposium gave students an opportunity to present their work to a broad audience of diverse backgrounds.

The Concert Choir of Washington University, under the direction of John Stewart, will perform Animal Planet in Graham Chapel.

It recognizes high-caliber research that has profoundly influenced the public’s understanding of behavioral & social science principles.

A WUSTL team took 1st place at the Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition; another team ranked No. 40 at the annual Putnam Competition.

It will integrate teaching techniques based on the work of modern choreographer Lester Horton with a variety of body-friendly concepts.

WilliamsAcclaimed poet C.K. Williams will read from his work at 4 p.m. Friday, April 22, as part of Washington University’s Writing Program Spring Reading Series. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Singing (2003), winner of the National Book Award; Repair (1999), winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize; and Flesh and Blood (1987), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.