Arts & Sciences

The nearly 70 events are being held in conjunction with the major exhibit Inside Out Loud: Women’s Health in Contemporary Art.

Courtesy PhotoSarah C.R. Elgin receives a 2004 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Dec. 1.”No faculty member could better represent Washington University as recipient of this award,” says Executive Vice Chancellor Edward S. Macias.

DavisFiction writer Kathryn Davis will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17, as part of Washington University’s Writing Program Spring Reading Series. In addition, Davis will speak on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Feb. 22.

A memorial service for David Hadas, Ph.D., a professor of English and of Religious Studies in Arts & Sciences for nearly 40 years, will be at 11 a.m. Feb. 5 in Graham Chapel.

Baugh will hold a named professorship that honors prominent civil rights attorney and emerita trustee Margaret Bush Wilson.

In August 1991 — on the same day that an attempted coup by communist hardliners ushered the collapse of the Soviet Union — Dmitriy Yablonskiy, Ph.D., took the biggest gamble of his life. He put himself and his family on a plane to America from Kharkov, their home in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine. […]

Internationally renowned musician James Kibbie will play the organ, which recently underwent a major restoration.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world’s largest general scientific society; fellow is the highest honor it confers.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s spring lecture series addresses a broad spectrum of issues from elder care to the future of social policy. The series will kick off Feb. 7 with a lecture by Melvin Oliver, Ph.D., titled “Can We Preserve the Progressive Soul of Asset-Based Social Policy?” Oliver is a professor of sociology and dean of social sciences in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. All lectures will be held at noon in Brown Hall, Room 124.

Courtesy photoJohn DaltonFiction writer and St. Louis native John Dalton will open Washington University’s Writing Program Spring Reading Series at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27. Dalton is the author of Heaven Lake. His short fiction has appeared in Story, Alaska Quarterly Review and other journals.