Arts & 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.

Photo by David KilperErik Herzog and graduate student Sara Aton examine brain activity data on the computer in Herzog’s Monsanto Hall lab.Erik Herzog has discovered that “VIP” is needed by the brain’s biological clock to coordinate daily rhythms in behavior and physiology.

Eric WoolseyInto the WoodsWhat happens after “happily ever after”? Find out when the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences presents the Into The Woods — Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical amalgam of fairy tale favorites — as its spring Mainstage production April 1-3 and 8-10.

Jill KrementzJames LapineVeteran Broadway writer, librettist and director James Lapine will introduce Washington University’s production of Into the Woods, his 1987 collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, with a talk at 7 p.m. Friday, April 1.

Jerry BauerBidartAward-winning poet Frank Bidart, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 24. In addition, Bidart will give a talk on the craft of poetry at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 31.

To recognize its new mission and name and to show appreciation, the center will host a ceremony and celebration Sept. 2.