Arts & Sciences

CiechanoverAaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc., visiting professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Research Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, was selected Oct. 6 to receive the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The top economic advisers for President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry will debate at 8 a.m. Oct. 8, the day of the second presidential debate, which will take place at Washington University in St. Louis. The event will be held at Lee Auditorium in the Missouri History Museum, Lindell Boulevard at DeBaliviere Avenue in St. Louis’ Forest Park. John Berry, columnist for Bloomberg News, will moderate the debate between the two advisers.

FaludiPulitzer Prize-winning author, Susan Faludi will present “Gender Roles: A Generation of Change” at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13 in Graham Chapel. Faludi is the author of two books. Her talk is the keynote address of the 30th annual Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin conference.

Hugh MacdonaldHugh Macdonald, the Avis Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will launch the Center for the Humanities’ 2004-05 Translation Series with a talk “On Translating Opera” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1.

His presentation “The 2004 Election: What’s at Stake?” at 11 a.m. Oct. 7 is part of the Assembly Series.

The talks will focus on a series of papers published in 1905 by Albert Einstein and will be held at 10 a.m. each Saturday in October.

Original cover art, “Love and Rockets” #15There is no shortcut from popular art to cultural respectability, but few have wandered longer than comic book, which has only recently begun to receive its critical and scholarly due. In October, the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics, a book and a pair of complementary exhibitions that together trace the evolution of comics from early precursors in 18th and 19th century England and Switzerland to turn-of-the-last-century newspapers, the raucous undergrounds of the 1960s and ’70s and the literary alternative comics of today.

BucknerCertain brain changes that are common in normal aging are not the beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease, according to an article published by Washington University psychology professor Randy L. Buckner in the Sept. 30 issue of Neuron. “When you start to look across the literature, lots of data points converge suggesting there are certain changes that take place in aging that are not what cause Alzheimer’s disease,” says Buckner.

Legendary jazz guitarist Ralph Towner, perhaps best known as lead composer, guitarist and keyboardist for the acoustic jazz ensemble Oregon, will present a free solo concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, in Washington University’s Graham Chapel.

Harpsichordist Maryse Carlin, instructor in Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will perform a concert titled “J. S. Bach and the French Clavecinistes” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, in Karl Umrath Hall Lounge.