Arts & Sciences

USAF 388th Range SqdGenesis was recovered in the Utah desert with fears that all data were lost.Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have begun to measure noble gases present in the solar wind delivered to Earth by the Genesis spacecraft, the first sample return mission since the lunar Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Concert Choir of Washington University — under the direction of John Stewart, director of vocal activities in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will perform a concert of music about animals at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 16.

Dancer and choreographer Darwin Prioleau, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Dance at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport, will present a “Movement Lab for Teachers” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 16, in Washington University’s Annelise Mertz Dance Studio.

TulvingEndel Tulving, Ph.D., the Clark Way Harrison Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience in Arts & Sciences, is one of six scientists to be awarded the 2005 Gairdner International Award for groundbreaking work in medical research. Tulving, a visiting scholar at WUSTL since 1996, was selected for his “pioneering research in the understanding of human memory.”

Acclaimed writer and physician Rafael Campo will read from his work at 7 p.m., Friday, April 15, at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by The Center for the Humanities and The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences, in conjunction with the Kemper Art Museum’s Inside Out Loud: Women’s Health in Contemporary Art (through April 24).

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.

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.