Arts & Sciences

A Pulitzer Prize-winner and the nation’s first female poet laureate, she died Dec. 1 of bone cancer at her home in University City.

The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will conclude its fall season with a host of December concerts. The Concert Choir of Washington University — under the direction of John Stewart, director of vocal activities — will perform works composed across six centuries at 8 p.m. today in Graham Chapel. The performance will be […]

Photo by Mary ButkusEdward S. Macias was installed Dec. 1 as the inaugural Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences.

He was named an assistant professor in 1951 and promoted to associate professor in 1957; he retired as emeritus in 1987.

Photo by Bill StoverThe Concert Choir of Washington University performs the national anthem before the Dec. 5 St. Louis Rams game.

Hannah Wilke, “Intra-Venus #4, February 19, 1992,” (1992-93)Women’s bodies — nude, adorned, eroticized, abstracted — figure prominently in the history of art. Yet the art of women’s health is shockingly new. In January, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, the first major museum-level exhibition dedicated to the topic. The show tracks the emergence of women’s health in American art from the early 1980s to the present, and includes approximately 50 artworks in a variety of traditional and cutting-edge media by more than 30 internationally known artists and artists’ groups.

Pratim Biswas has found a method for removing MTBE, which been detected at low levels in municipal water sources around the nation.

Researchers Rosie Koch and Stan H. Braude won an award from the Animal Behavior Society of America for their documentary, All the Trappings.

Remembering Einstein’s “miracle year.”The United Nations has declared 2005 the International Year of Physics — and there’s a very good reason why this particular year was chosen to raise worldwide public awareness of physics. It is also the 100th anniversary of physicist Albert Einstein’s miraculous year in which he wrote five — or three depending on whom you ask — of his most famous scientific papers. Also known as the World Year of Physics, 2005 will feature worldwide events of interest not only to physicists, but also to the general public. Two physicists from Washington University in St. Louis who are both known for their ability to speak and write clearly about physics to the layperson will be giving talks throughout 2005 about Einstein’s ideas and their impact on science and society 100 years later.

Jonathan Townsend, Ph.D., emeritus professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, died on Monday, Nov. 29, 2004. He was 82. The burial was private.