Arts & Sciences

Tom CaravagliaGus Solomons jrGus Solomons jr, a distinguished visiting professor in Washington University’s Dance Program in Arts & Sciences, will discuss his career as a dancer, choreographer and critic during an informal lecture/demonstration titled Gus Solomons jr Tells All at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30.

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 Print and Voice at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23.

The lecturer has won the Four-Year College Biology Teacher of the Year Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers.

Don J. Usner/Ventana de Luz PhotographyWrightPoet and playwright Jay Wright, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will give a dramatic reading of his work at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14. In addition, Wright will read from his poetry at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16.

In test runs, students reported that online was quicker and easier, and they felt more comfortable filling out the forms away from the classroom.

It’s a compilation of essays spanning four decades; they offer clear, no-nonsense economic policy analysis.

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to explain St. Louis Cardinals fever to someone of a different culture, or experience St. Louis from a fresh, international angle? If so, the Office for International Students and Scholars is looking for you. Volunteers are being sought to participate in a pair of community-connected programs […]

St. Louis guitarist Steve Schenkel will perform for Washington University Jazz at Holmes series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23.

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.

Most students who go abroad to study have many interesting tales to tell when they get home. But few, if any, also come back with fantastic stories of smuggling and spying. Fewer still parlay those stories into a Cold War thriller.