Arts & Sciences

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.

He was a former professor of history in Arts & Sciences, a military historian and finalist for the National Book Award.

After the fact, national and international leaders are often judged on one thing — their success. University College in Arts & Sciences’ 24th Annual Master of Liberal Arts (M.L.A.) Lecture Series will focus on “Leadership Successes and Failures” on Saturdays in February. Although the topic wasn’t chosen as a direct reflection of any current political […]

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.

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

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 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.