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Hold That Thought: New Arts & Sciences podcasts make faculty research more...
How did World War II impact the way we grow food? Do our memories make us distinctly human? What can weedy rice teach us about evolution? Hold That Thought, a new podcast series from Arts &...
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Edison presents Laurie Berkner Oct. 20
Laurie Berkner, the "queen of children's music," will launch Edison's 2012-13 ovations for young people series Oct. 20 in the 560 Music Center. Download hires version. In 1997, Laurie Berkner pressed...
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Tomb of Maya queen K’abel discovered in Guatemala
El Peru Waka Regional Archaeological Project (2) The carved alabaster vessel (shown from two sides) found in the burial chamber caused the archaeologists to conclude the tomb was that of Lady K’abel....
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Washington People: Tiffany Knight
Tiffany Knight, PhD, associate professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, with Leucaena leucocephala in Hawaii. Hawaii is one of the most...
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Barbara Schaal to become next dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences
WUSTL Photo ServicesProvost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Edward S. Macias, PhD, has announced that Barbara A. Schaal, PhD, the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in the...
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WUSTL Wind Ensemble Oct. 7
The Washington University Wind Ensemble, under the baton of new director Chris Becker, will perform at the 560 Music Center Oct. 7. At the turn of the 20th century, Australian composer Percy Aldridge...
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Online test estimates ‘Face-Name Memory IQ’
How skillful are you at remembering faces and names? Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are inviting the world to take part in an online experiment that will allow participants to see...
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Washington University women studies director offers insight on key issues of...
Mary Ann Dzuback, PhD, director of the Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, identifies some key issues of importance to women...
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Performing Arts Department presents Cabaret
Peter Winfrey as the Master of Ceremonies in the WUSTL production of Cabaret Oct. 19-28. Photo by Sean Savoie. Download hires image. “Welcome to cabaret!” declares the Master of Ceremonies. “Leave...
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Patricia Hampl to read Oct. 11
I’m sitting here, holding her hand, but it’s the ardent face from 1936 that keeps appearing, the face in the photograph placed on the shelf above the piano all the years of my girlhood and beyond....
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Hall of Fame astronaut awards scholarship to Arts & Sciences student, gives talk
Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart will present Lindsey K. Steinberg, a senior majoring in chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, with a $10,000 scholarship from the...
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Richard Powers Oct. 16 and 18
On a winter’s night, on a lonely Nebraska highway, a flock of sandhill cranes lurches skyward, roused by squealing brakes and crunching metal. The driver, Mark Schluter, lies in a coma. His sister,...
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Jen Smith one of eight in the U.S. named a 2013 Eisenhower Fellow
Jennifer R. Smith, PhD, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of eight U.S. citizens selected to go abroad in 2013 as an Eisenhower USA Fellow....
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Halloween tips from the crypt
Some Halloween news tips refuse to die, rising from the newsroom morgue each October with a stubborn resolve to once again help trick-or-treaters stay safe on Halloween night. Here's three timely...
View ArticleProvost offering interdisciplinary teaching grants; workshop for prospective...
Interdisciplinary faculty collaboration is fast becoming a hallmark of Washington University in St. Louis. To help support interdisciplinary teaching, the Office of the Provost announces the second...
View Article‘Politics, issues and theatrics’ of 2012 presidential election focus of Arts...
Four Arts & Sciences faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis will explore the “politics, issues and theatrics” of this year’s presidential election during a 6 p.m. panel discussion...
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Political empowerment fading for black Americans in the age of Obama
Hailed by some as the “end of race as we know it” and the beginning of a “post-racial” America, the 2008 election of Barack Obama sparked a measurable bump in feelings of political empowerment among...
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American Arts Experience Oct. 21
The 560 Music Center's E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall. Aaron Copland (1900-90) and George Gershwin (1898-1937) are perhaps the most iconically American of composers. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, three...
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The second debate: What to expect in town hall format
The first presidential debate was most striking for Gov. Mitt Romney's aggressiveness and President Barack Obama's rhetorical reserve, but the town hall format in the second debate provides an extra...
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Scat-sniffing dog helps save endangered primates
A scat-sniffing dog by the name of Pinkerton may be the best friend ever for a small, highly elusive group of endangered monkey and gibbon species now scrambling for survival in the vanishing forests...
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