Arts & Sciences

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

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.

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.

Morris Fiorina, author of a new book on the perceived deep divide between America’s “red” and “blue” states, will lead the discussion.

Open to the University community, the event provides graduate students an opportunity to present their research to a broad audience.

WUSTL will lead a partnership that will help elementary-school students develop enthusiasm for learning and doing science.

A team headed by Craig Pikaard has discovered a fourth kind found only in plants, thought to have been around for more than 200 million years.

The Esperanza Award is given by the Hispanic Leaders Group of Greater St. Louis; Braxs is coordinator of community service for students of Spanish.