Arts & Sciences

Iain Boyd Whyte, professor of architectural history at the University of Edinburgh, will speak for the Washington University Gallery of Art at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in Steinberg Auditorium.

Former EPA administrators Carol Browner and William Reilly will deliver the first Sesquicentennial Environmental Initiative Lecture at 3 p.m., Friday, October 3. The lecture, which focuses on politics and the environment, is free and open to the public and will be held in Graham Chapel, located just north of Mallinckrodt Center, 6445 Forsyth Blvd., on the Washington University campus.

WrightWriter, publisher and acclaimed poet C. D. Wright — “one of America’s oddest, best, and most appealing poets” according to Publisher’s Weekly — will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, as part of the Fall Reading Series 2003.

Three European jazz combos will launch Washington University’s fall 2003 Jazz at Holmes Series with a pair of free Thursday-evening performances Sept. 25 and Oct. 2

TeachoutTerry Teachout, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, will present a pair of events for Washington University’s 2003-04 Center for the Humanities’ Writers Series Oct. 13-14.

With two daughters in their 20s, Robert E. Wiltenburg is no stranger to planning birthday parties. But the most recent party he planned took a little more foresight. More than two years’ worth, to be exact. In 2001, Wiltenburg, Ph.D., dean of University College in Arts & Sciences, was tabbed to head the committee in […]

New and improved consumer goods, better planes, vehicles, and electronics, and new biomedical products that could lead to better pharmaceuticals and innovative medical devices are among the objectives of a new, interdisciplinary center housed in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. The Center for Materials Innovation, (CMI) located in the refurbished basement of Crow Hall, will enable collaborators from across campus to make basic and applied advances in materials research, eventually touching many aspects of daily life.

Amy BloomAmy Bloom, author of NORMAL: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitude, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 and 25, for The Writing Program Reading Series at Washington University in St. Louis.

Sigrid EstradaChapman, lecturer in film & media studies, co-wrote HBO’s *Live From Baghdad*.Richard Chapman, lecturer in screenwriting in Washington University’s Film & Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, has been nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award for the HBO original film Live From Baghdad.

Wang Haichen, *Garden Blues* (2002), porcelainChina boasts one of the world’s oldest and richest pottery traditions, yet only in recent years have Chinese ceramicists begun to emerge as individual “studio artists,” rather than collective practitioners. The Washington University School of Art’s Des Lee Gallery explores this burgeoning “new age” in Chinese Ceramics Today: Between Tradition and Contemporary Expression, an exhibition of works by 23 contemporary ceramicists from mainland China and Hong Kong.