Arts & Sciences

Jupiter: a core of tar.After eleven months of politics, now it’s time for some real “core values” – not those of the candidates but those of the great gas giant planet, Jupiter. Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis research associate professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, studying data from the Galileo probe of Jupiter, proposes a new mechanism by which the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago.

Rendering of the new CORTEX buildingEfforts to develop a significant biotechnology industry in St. Louis got a major boost with the groundbreaking for a new laboratory and office building that will provide space for growing companies. The new building at 4300 Forest Park Avenue in midtown St. Louis is being developed by CORTEX, the Center of Research, Technology & Entrepreneurial Exchange.

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.

Researchers have calculated that the precise isotopic structure of xenon in the sample reveals an operation that worked like a geyser.

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 […]

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.