Arts & Sciences

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.

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.