Arts & Sciences

Robert Moses, one of the leading figures in the American civil rights movement, will give the Assembly Series lecture at 11 a.m. Wed., April 6 in Graham Chapel. The annual Martin Luther King memorial event, sponsored by the Association of Black Students, is free and open to the public. This is the keynote address for the “Documenting Change” symposium.

The Monsanto Fund has awarded Washington University $3.7 million to develop, build and operate two custom mobile classrooms. Washington University will lead a partnership, including the St. Louis Science Center, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Saint Louis Zoo, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, to create and provide programming on the vehicles. The program will help young elementary school students develop enthusiasm for learning and doing science, through interactive experiences and exhibits.

Morris Fiorina, author of a new book on the perceived deep divide between America’s “red” and “blue” states, will lead a discussion on “Polarization, Tolerance, and the State of American Public Opinion” in a community forum at 7:30 p.m. March 28, in May Auditorium, Simon Hall. James L. Gibson, Ph.D., the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government at Washington University, will join Fiorina for public discussion of his comments.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he worked on the frontiers of space research for more than four decades.

Thanks to a major gift from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, postdoctoral fellows in Arts & Sciences are now available for graduate students in the humanities and the social sciences.

After graduating from Metro Academic and Classical High School in St. Louis, she received a WUSTL academic scholarship.

The event will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines, ranging from literature to music, theater, history and anthropology.

The award funds the “Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry” program and is an extension of a five-year grant made in 1999.

A lost gem in the world of opera, Lee Hoiby’s adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play will be presented at 8 p.m. March 18-19.

The author of 11 books, she is a cancer survivor, a prominent lesbian activist, an influential literary editor and a gifted translator.