Arts & Sciences

Researchers have developed a technique that provides a more carefully controlled radiation oncology dosages with less damage to nearby healthy tissues.

Tennessee Williams lost a playwriting contest? It happened in 1937, when Williams placed fourth in a Washington University competition, behind classmates Shepherd Mead (who would go on to write How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) and A.E. Hotchner (author of Papa Hemingway, among others). It was a brutal blow for the shy, young […]

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.