Arts & Sciences

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.

The professor of earth and planetary sciences has teamed with with the explorers to provide the oldest determinations of the magnetic declination of America’s interior.

A major force in the aerospace and defense industry for three decades, Lewis served as a trustee from 1971 until 1984.

Poet and essayist J.D. McClatchy will read from his work at 8 p.m. Feb. 19 for The Writing Program Reading Series. The talk — sponsored by The Writing Program and the Department of English, both in Arts & Sciences — will take place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201. McClatchy has authored five poetry […]