Arts & Sciences

Morris Fiorina, author of a new book on the perceived deep divide between America’s “red” and “blue” states, will lead a discussion on “Polarization, Tolerance, and the State of American Public Opinion” in a community forum at 7:30 p.m. March 28, in May Auditorium, Simon Hall. James L. Gibson, Ph.D., the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government at Washington University, will join Fiorina for public discussion of his comments.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he worked on the frontiers of space research for more than four decades.

Thanks to a major gift from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, postdoctoral fellows in Arts & Sciences are now available for graduate students in the humanities and the social sciences.

The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology and the Seismological Society of America have selected him to give about 12 talks.

He has been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.

The festival, co-sponsored by the Program in Film and Media Studies, will feature the St. Louis premiere of three recent Italian films.

After graduating from Metro Academic and Classical High School in St. Louis, she received a WUSTL academic scholarship.

The event will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines, ranging from literature to music, theater, history and anthropology.

The award funds the “Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry” program and is an extension of a five-year grant made in 1999.

A lost gem in the world of opera, Lee Hoiby’s adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play will be presented at 8 p.m. March 18-19.