Arts & Sciences

The Sacagawea Golden DollarAs the nation commemorates the 200th anniversary of the 1804-06 Lewis and Clark Expedition, the explorers’ journals, which offer a veritable treasure trove of information, are being scrutinized as never before. Two historians at Washington University in St. Louis say, however, that most scholars studying the journals aren’t familiar with the literature of the time, and therefore don’t thoroughly understand the content. For example, Lewis writes that Sacagawea, the only woman on the expedition, became extremely ill due to her “taking could” (sic). Most reading that passage interpreted it as “taking a cold. The Washington University researchers think that actually she was pregnant again and had a miscarriage because “taking a cold” was a euphemism for pregnancy back then.

Photo courtesy U.S. Army Corps of EngineersBarge traffic makes its way through a lock on the Upper Mississippi.”Our Rivers: A Sustainable Resource?” is the focus of a public education forum that four Washington University faculty will lead as part of a community-wide symposium being held in conjunction with the 5th annual St. Louis Earth Day Celebration, April 22-23. The sustainable rivers program will be held April 22 from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will feature Washington University faculty Charles Buescher, professor of environmental engineering, Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences and William Lowry, Ph.D., professor of political science in Arts & Sciences. The colloquium will provide a background history of the rivers in our region and their various uses in transportation, agriculture, power production, recreation and public water supply.

U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück will present a pair of events April 6 and 8 for the Spring Reading Series 2004, offered by The Writing Program and the Department of English in Arts and Sciences at Washington University.

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present a “Young Choreographers Showcase” April 2-4 in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio in Mallinckrodt Student Center. The lineup will feature an eclectic collection of works by eight student choreographers from the PAD’s Dance Program. All works were selected by a jury of dance faculty. Styles […]

The new center aims to support the study, research and teaching of ethics in areas ranging from medicine to business to architecture.

He was a medical technician in the pathology department and a teacher in the School of Medicine from 1934-1941.

What are the origins of intolerance and prejudice? How are intolerance and prejudice similar, and how are they different? Are there certain people who are more intolerant or more prejudiced than others? How can the social problem of intolerance and prejudice be solved? These are among the questions to be addressed by a panel of […]

U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück will present a talk on poetry at 8 p.m. April 6 and will read from her work at 8 p.m. April 8 as part of the Spring Reading Series 2004, offered by The Writing Program and the Department of English, both in Arts & Sciences. Both events are free and […]

She taught in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work for more than 30 years and also was an alumna of the school.

Myron S. Scholes, co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will speak on “Financial Innovation in a Chaotic Environment” at 11:30 a.m. April 8 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Scholes, the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance Emeritus at Stanford University, authored the “Black-Scholes Options Pricing Model,” which […]