Arts & Sciences

He was awarded the annual G.K. Gilbert Award at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting Nov. 2-5 in Seattle.

Patricia Sacks Fingert; Louis Cook Peltier; Betty Perry.

The Washington University Chamber Orchestra — under the director of Elizabeth Macdonald, director of strings in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will perform a concert of all-time hits from the Baroque era and the 20th century at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 in Umrath Hall Lounge. The concert will opens with American […]

Johann Heinrich Joist, medical school; Eugene Stoia, music teacher.

A professor of English and of Religious Studies for nearly 40 years, his class “Bible as Literature” was popular with students.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Washington University Chamber Choir will present the 2004 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. April 25 in Graham Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public. It will feature the premiere of three new compositions — commissioned for the University’s Sesquicentennial — by Harold Blumenfeld, John MacIvor Perkins […]

They are given to personnel who have contributed significantly to the teaching, advising, counseling and research efforts.

Writer, 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. Oct. 2 in Hurst Lounge (Duncker Hall, Room 201) as part of the Fall Reading Series. Wright is the author of 10 volumes of poetry, […]

Acclaimed children’s author Katherine Paterson, who wrote of Bridge to Terabithia, will host a pair of events for the 2003-04 Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences’ Writers Series Nov. 17-18. At 8 p.m. Nov. 17, Paterson will read from her work in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 204. At 4 p.m. Nov. 18, she will […]

Thirty-eight dancers selected by audition will perform seven works by faculty and guest choreographers for Washington University Dance Theatre.