Arts & Sciences

Matthea HarveyPoet Matthea Harvey, author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form and Sad Little Breathing Machine, will read from her work for Washington University’s Writing Program Fall Reading Series at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4.

Hugh MacDonaldMusicologist Hugh Macdonald, the Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will lecture on “Berlioz’s Lost Roméo et Juliette” at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5.

NorbergRichard E. Norberg, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a co-recipient of the 2004 ISMAR Prize, the highest honor the International Society of Magnetic Resonance awards.

As assistant dean, she “has made outstanding contributions to many aspects of the graduate school’s mission,” Dean Robert E. Thach says.

Henric S. Krawczynski is one of eight scientists in the country to receive the prestigious Outstanding Junior Investigator Award.

Henric S. Krawczynski, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in high-energy physics, one of eight scientists in the country to receive the prestigious recognition in 2004.

Henric S. Krawczynski, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in high-energy physics, one of eight scientists in the country to receive the prestigious recognition in 2004.

Nancy P. Pope, Ph.D., was promoted to associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, announced Dean Robert E. Thach, Ph.D.

Both events are sponsored by the Department of English and The Writing Program, and are free and open to the public.

This year marks the 50th and 100th anniversaries, respectively, of the deaths of Charles Ives and Antonín Dvořák. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, more than 20 St. Louis musicians — drawn largely from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will present A Chamber Music Concert Celebrating Anniversaries of Antonín Dvořák and Charles Ives. The concert will feature songs and rarely performed works by Ives and Dvorák’s beloved “Serenade for Winds in D minor.”