Arts & Sciences

The “Future of the Airline Industry” will be the topic of a public forum from 7:30-11:30 a.m. Oct. 31 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The discussion will be timely because it comes one day before American Airlines implements a major downsizing of its St. Louis hub, a reduction expected to cut […]

Photo by Mary ButkusThe University’s two newest Rhodes Scholars — Bethany Ehlmann and Allison Gilmore — chat in Holmes Lounge.Allison Gilmore and Bethany Ehlmann bring the number of WUSTL students who have won the highly acclaimed award to 23 since 1902.

A distinguished mathematician, his accomplishments in the areas of probability and harmonic analysis earned him international renown.

Helie Lee, author of the national best-selling memoirs Still Life With Rice (1996) and In the Absence of Sun (2002), will host a pair of events Feb. 23-24 for The SmartSet Series: Where Great Writers Read, sponsored by The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences. At 8 p.m. Feb. 23, Lee will read […]

Richard Howard, poetry editor of The Paris Review, will present a talk on the craft of poetry at 8 p.m. March 16 for The Writing Program Reading Series and will read from his own work at 8 p.m. March 18. Both events — which are sponsored by The Writing Program and Department of English, both […]

Western audiences are familiar with stand-up comedians, but the public can experience a sit-down version of this art form March 27 as the University will host an English-language performance of Rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of comic monologue. The Rakugo troupe has been on the Hilltop Campus this week to interact with faculty and students […]

Joy Williams, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will give a talk on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. April 15 in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Spring […]

The ArtSci Council’s 2003-04 Faculty Awards Recognition Ceremony was held April 13 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Jonathan Hron and Daniel Perrault have won the Spector Prize; Laura Ernst and Omar Young will share the Stalker Prize.

Biologist Erik Herzog has found that the biological clocks of rats and mice respond directly to temperature changes.