Volume 26, No. 5, September 21, 2001
 First-year medical students Anne Berenbom, Franklin Huang, Amy Reik, and Elizabeth Foglia pause and reflect during a candlelight vigil Sept. 14 in Forest Park. Second-year medical student Jessica Pittman organized the event. |
University responds in wake of tragedyBy Neil Schoenherr The events of Sept. 11 will be forever etched in our hearts and minds. It was a day that will have a profound and lasting effect on our nation for years to come. Members of the University community are coming together to help each other and to help those in need. After hearing about the attacks, senior French and mechanical engineering double major Allison Ball helped organize a group of approximately 60 engineering students to give blood at a local drive. |
 A dance treasure Dancer and choreographer Donald McKayle (center), a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University Sept. 5-15, drills students from "Modern Dance and the African-American Legacy" in his solo "Angelitos negros (Little Black Angels)." McKayle, whose career spans Broadway, television and film, was recently named one of "America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures" by the Library of Congress and the Dance Heritage Coalition. |
Pre-Neandertals developed social skills earlier than thoughtBy Susan Killenberg McGinn If your image of a Neandertal is of a crude, uncaring brute, think again. Teeth and jaw fossils found last year in southeastern France not only reinforce perceptions about how our Neandertal ancestors developed physically, but also suggest that their social and technological development was much more advanced than previously documented. An international team of scientists, including Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D.,
professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, studied two ancient teeth
and a large segment of a lower jaw. |
 Trinkaus |
United Way kicks off campaignBy Jessica N. Roberts For the past 113 years, the United Way has helped meet the health and human care needs of millions of people through its network of volunteers and community service agencies. In order to achieve its mission of organizing people to care for one another, the United Way supports agencies with programs and services that nurture and protect children, strengthen families, provide education and job training, assist persons with disabilities and care for the elderly. This year's annual campus fund drive for the United Way of Greater St. Louis is now under way. Last year, the generosity of faculty and staff allowed the University to surpass its $425,000 goal. The goal for this year's campaign has been set at $435,000, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. |
School of Art announces fall lecture series
By Liam Otten An array of nationally known visual artists will present their work at the University this fall as part of the School of Art's Visiting Artist Lecture Series. All lectures are free and open to the public and begin at 7:30 p.m. in Steinberg Auditorium. The series kicks off Wednesday with digital artist Zoe Beloff, whose work investigates cinematic imagery through a variety of mediums, including film, stereoscopic projection and interactive media. Her CD-ROMs "Beyond" and "Where, Where, There, There, Where" explore themes of technology, desire, the paranormal and the birth of mechanical reproduction, while also examining the links between early cinema and the modern digital realm. |