Arts & Sciences

Photo by Mary ButkusClifford M. Will, Ph.D., was installed as the James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences April 14 in Holmes Lounge.

Michele Johnson and Tara Sinclair were honored April 14 at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

“Roddyfest: Directions in Memory Research” honored the internationally recognized scholar of human memory function.

The event is called “Exploring the History of Art”; Weil has been associated with the University for 47 years.

Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including 2003’s The Singing, winner of the National Book Award.

Pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, will dedicate the 9-foot grand piano in Graham Chapel.

He was appointed as a visiting professor at the University in 1972 and became a regular member of the Department of Philosophy in 1973.

“It’s a play about someone trying to remember who they are,” said playwright Brian Golden, a 2004 WUSTL graduate.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and the Washington University Chamber Choir will present the 2005 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in Graham Chapel. The program, which includes works by Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn and Ottorino Respighi, will highlight two recently acquired instruments — a new harp and a new grand piano — as well as Graham Chapel’s newly restored Roland Quest organ.

Eric WoolseyChristena Doggrell in “Six Seconds in Charlack”For St. Louis commuters, the small inner-ring suburb of Charlack, Mo., passes in the blink of an eye, its borders marked by a pair of signs set only a few hundred yards apart along I-170. Yet as Brian Golden’s Six Seconds in Charlack reminds us, sometimes an instant is enough to change a life. The drama — winner of Washington University’s 2004 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition — will be presented by the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences April 28 to May 1.