Arts & Sciences

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.

Events include film screening of “Eyes on the Prize” and a panel discussion about the series; a keynote address by Robert Moses; and an exhibition in Olin Library.

Robert Moses, one of the leading figures in the American civil rights movement, will give the Assembly Series lecture at 11 a.m. Wed., April 6 in Graham Chapel. The annual Martin Luther King memorial event, sponsored by the Association of Black Students, is free and open to the public. This is the keynote address for the “Documenting Change” symposium.

The Monsanto Fund has awarded Washington University $3.7 million to develop, build and operate two custom mobile classrooms. Washington University will lead a partnership, including the St. Louis Science Center, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Saint Louis Zoo, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, to create and provide programming on the vehicles. The program will help young elementary school students develop enthusiasm for learning and doing science, through interactive experiences and exhibits.

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.