Arts & Sciences

He died Oct. 9 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; he taught radiology courses at the medical school from 1968-2001.

The grant supports a long-term investigation of the dynamics of family functioning and the well-being of children born to unmarried parents.

Terry Teachout, author of The New York Times Notable Book The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, will read for the 2003-04 Center for the Humanities’ Writers Series Oct. 13-14. Teachout will host two events while at the University. He will read from his work at 8 p.m. Oct. 13 in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 204. […]

Renowned critic Helen Vendler and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham will participate in a three-day discussion on poets and poetry Oct. 15-17 as part of the University’s Fall Reading Series 2003, sponsored by The Writing Program and the Department of English, both in Arts & Sciences. “Conversations About Poetry” will kick off at 8 p.m. […]

Photo by David KilperMilorad P. Dudukovic, associate director of the new multi-institutional center, works with graduate students at the Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory.The National Science Foundation has announced that the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis has been selected to receive $17 million.

Photo by Bob BostonAward-winners Lee Epstein and Eugene M. Johnson Jr. greet each other at the recent Faculty Achievement Awards Ceremony.

The National Conference on Graduate Student Leadership will bring to campus 42 graduate student delegates from 14 universities.

A specialist in modern Japanese intellectual history, he was on the history department faculty from 1969 until his retirement in 1993.

Renowned critic Helen Vendler and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham will headline Conversations About Poetry, a three-day discussion held Oct. 15-17 as part of Washington University’s Fall Reading Series 2003.

Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt UniversityThe “CEO” in your brain appears to be concerned more about the consequences of your actions than how hard they are to produce. That is the implication of a detailed study of the neuronal activity in a critical area of the brain, called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), published in the Oct. 3 issue of the journal Science. The finding is important because the ACC plays a key role in disorders such as schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder in humans, suggests Joshua Brown, study co-author and WUSTL research associate in psychology.