Arts & Sciences

The bacterium Acetobacter aceti makes unusually acid-resistant enzymes in spades, which could open new doors in protein chemistry.

The talk — part of The Writing Program Reading Series — is open to the public and will take place in Duncker Hall’s Hurst Lounge.

Photo by Kevin LowderChoreographer Donald Mahler worked with 11 dancers selected to perform excerpts from Tudor’s classic ballet Dark Elegies.

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present a “Small Chamber Ensembles Concert” at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13, in Holmes Lounge.

The Washington University Flute Choir, directed by Jan Smith, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13, in the University’s Graham Chapel.

Literary historian Harold Love, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences for Fall 2004, will speak on Reading Restoration Lampoons at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9.

The Washington University Concert Band will perform music of Franz von Suppé, Malcolm Arnold and John Philip Sousa at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, in the University’s Graham Chapel. Dan Presgrave, instrumental music coordinator in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, directs the program.

The Concert Choir of Washington University will perform music of Thomas Weelkes, Tomas Luis de Vittoria, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Francis Poulenc at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, in Graham Chapel.

Ethnomusicologist Patrick Burke, assistant professor of music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, will present a lecture titled “Onyx Club Revue: Jazz and White Masculinity in the Early Swing Era” at 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10.

Photo by Mary ButkusReadings of four student plays culminated the two-week 2004 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Workshop.