Volume 25, No. 20, February 23, 2001
 African-American leadership Master of social work student Trina Williams (left) listens to Lester Spence, instructor in political science in Arts & Sciences, at the Black Graduate Council's First Annual Leadership Symposium - "Collective Initiative: Black Leadership in the New Millennium" - Feb. 15 in the Women's Building Formal Lounge. The symposium aimed to raise dialogue and produce insights on African-American leadership both on campus and within the general community. The free event featured discussion on leadership networks, collective vision and the nature of African-American leadership and politics.
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Urban housing focus of lecture seriesBy Liam Otten Beginning Monday, the University's School of Architecture will host a series of lectures exploring the future of urban housing and its impact on the St. Louis region. The series will feature presentations by six nationally recognized architectural firms, all of which are short-listed for a major new housing development in the Grand Center arts and entertainment district. The visits are co-sponsored by Grand Center Inc. and the School of Architecture as part of the school's Monday Night Lecture Series. Each lecture starts at 7 p.m. in the Steinberg Hall Auditorium and is free and open to the public. A reception for the architect and attendees will be held at 6:30 p.m. next door in Givens Hall. Click to see entire article |
 Infants learn words one-by-one |
Helping babies talk, one word at a timeBy Tony Fitzpatrick Brevity, as the Bard said, may well be the soul of wit. But, according to research by a University computer scientist, brevity is also the nature of speech to infants, and this may help them learn their first words. Michael Brent, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, has found that before the age of 15 months the words infants learn are mainly those that their mothers utter in isolation. Hearing "kitty," "red" or "come" in isolation may make learning those words much easier for young infants than hearing them buried in a longer sentence. Brent's findings challenge recent language acquisition theory, which suggests that infants rely heavily on segmenting longer utterances into their individual words. The segmentation-based perspective emerged in recent years as a number of studies in other laboratories began to show that infants can segment longer sentences.
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Harris Community Award to benefit Black RepBy Barbara Rea Whitney and the late Jane Harris, a husband and wife who have given generously to the St. Louis community over the years, devised a way to give an enduring gift to the community. Their approach to philanthropy was the establishment in 1999 of the Jane and Whitney Harris Saint Louis Community Service Award. This year marks the second annual presentation of the award, whereby a husband-wife couple are chosen to receive the prize based on their dedication to improving the St. Louis region. The cash award is then designated to the organization of the winning couple's choice. |
 Recipients of the Jane and Whitney Harris Saint Louis Community Service Award are (from left): Leigh and Alice Gerdine, who received the award for their dedication to the improvement of St. Louis; and Ron Himes, founder and producing director of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company. The Gerdines donated the cash prize to the Black Rep. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton (right) presented the award at a ceremony Feb. 14.
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