University Events

"University Events" lists a portion of the activities taking place March 29-April 11 at Washington University. Visit the Web for expanded calendars for the Danforth Campus (webevent.wustl.edu) and the School of Medicine (medschool.wustl.edu/calendars.html).

Exhibits
"Lesley Dill: 'The Thrill Came Slowly.'" Through April 29. Co-sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Millstone Gallery at COCA, 524 Trinity Ave. 725-1834, ext. 156.

"Reality Bites." Through April 29. Kemper Art Museum. 935-4523.

Film

Friday, March 30

8 p.m. Italian Film Festival of St. Louis. "La bestia nel cuore" (Don't Tell). Cristina Comencini Sabina, dir. Brown Hall Auditorium. 422-3102.


Saturday, March 31

8 p.m. Italian Film Festival of St. Louis. "Il mio miglior nemico" (My Best Enemy). Carlo Verdone Achille De Bellis, dir. Brown Hall Auditorium. 422-3102.


Wednesday, April 4

7 p.m. Japanese Film Series. "Be With You" (2004), Nobuhiro Doi, dir. Busch Hall, Rm. 100. 935-5110.


Friday, April 6

8 p.m. Italian Film Festival of St. Louis. "La febbre" (The Fever). Alessandro D'Alatri Mario, dir. Brown Hall Auditorium. 422-3102.


Saturday, April 7

8 p.m. Italian Film Festival of St. Louis. "Romanzo criminale" (Crime Novel). Michele Placido, dir. Brown Hall Auditorium. 422-3102.


Friday, April 13

8 p.m. Italian Film Festival of St. Louis. "Alla luce del sole" (Come Into The Light). Roberto Faenza, dir. Brown Hall Auditorium. 422-3102.


Saturday, April 14

8 p.m. Italian Film Festival of St. Louis. "La terra" (Our Land). Sergio Rubini, dir. Brown Hall Auditorium. 422-3102.

Lectures

Thursday, March 29

Noon. Genetics Seminar Series. "Modifier Genes and Systems Biology of Health and Diseases." Joseph Nadeau, dept. of genetics, Case Western Reserve U. McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 823. 362-2139.

4 p.m. Anesthesiology Lecture. Annual C.R. Stephen Lecture. "Relationship of Sleep and Anesthesia." Clifford Saper, James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard U. Eric P. Newman Education Center. 454-8701.

4 p.m. Chemistry Seminar. "Chemistry of Sterically Protected Unusual Phosphorous Compounds." Masaaki Yoshifuji, adjunct prof. of chemistry, U. of Ala. McMillen Lab., Rm. 311. 935-6530.

4 p.m. History Colloquium. "The 'Conquest of Nature': Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany." David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard U. (Reception follows.) Brown Hall Lounge. 935-5450.

6:15 p.m. Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture. "Turkish-German Constellations in Literature and Film." Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, prof. of German, U. of Münster, Germany. Co-sponsored by the Kemper Art Museum. Kemper Art Museum, Rm. 104. 935-5106.

8 p.m. Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture. "1943: The Jewish World at Ground Zero." David Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and prof. of Jewish literature, Jewish Theological Seminary. Co-sponsored by Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies. McDonnell Hall, Rm. 162. 935-8567.


Friday, March 30

9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds. Kelle Moley, prof. of obstetrics and gynecology. Clopton Aud., 4950 Children's Place. 454-6006.

11 a.m. Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering Seminar. Younan Xia, prof. of chemistry, U. of Wash. Lopata Hall, Rm. 101. 935-5548.

11 a.m. Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies Lecture. "Survival Strategies: Interpreting Islam in Central Asia, Past and Present." Devin DeWeese, prof. of central European studies, Indiana U. Co-sponsored by Religious Studies. Duncker Hall, Rm. 201, Hurst Lounge. 935-8567.

Noon. Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar. "Distinct Roles for Classical and Alternative NF-kB Signaling in Osteoclasts." Deborah Novack, asst. prof. of internal medicine. McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg, Rm. 426. 362-7437.

2:30-5:30 p.m. Center for the Study of Ethics & Human Values Mini-symposium. "Drug Development in the Global Context." (Reception follows.) Wilson Hall, Rm. 214. 935-9358.



Monday, April 2

4 p.m. Physics Condensed Matter/Materials and Biological Physics Seminar. "Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy on Semiconductors." Sascha Sadewsser, div. of solar energy, Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin. (3:45 p.m. coffee.) Compton Hall, Rm. 241. 935-6276.

6:15 p.m. Germanic Languages and Literatures Lecture. "Die Gruppe 47, von Heute Aus Gesehen." Wilfried Barner, prof. of German, U. of Goettingen, Germany. Women's Bldg. Formal Lounge. 935-5106.


Tuesday, April 3

11:45 a.m. Center for Materials Innovation & Biomedical Engineering Joint Seminar. "Engineering Cell Adhesive Biointerfaces and Tissue Constructs." Andres Garcia, Georgia Inst. of Technology. Whitaker Hall, Rm. 100. 935-6540.

Noon. Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series. "Extensive and Regulated Glycan Synthesis by Abundant Human Intestinal Symbionts." Laurie Comstock, assoc. prof. of medicine, Harvard U. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-3692.

5:30 p.m. Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Biophysical Evenings Seminar. "Energy Transfer in Natural Photosynthetic Antenna Supercomplexes." Robert Blankenship, Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Biology & Chemistry. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-4152.


Wednesday, April 4

11 a.m. College Republicans Address. "From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPS to Restoring America's Greatness." Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas. For the Assembly Series. Graham Chapel. 935-4620.

7 p.m. Darfur Action Coalition Lecture. Gloria White-Hammond, Darfur advocate and founder, My Sisters Keeper. Co-sponsored with CORE, the Center for Ethics and Human Values, Judicial Programs Office, and Africa Public Interest Law and Dispute Resolution Project. Women's Bldg. Formal Lounge. 505-463-5868.


Thursday, April 5

10 a.m. Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering Seminar. Hunter Lovins, president, Natural Capitalism, Inc., Eldorado Springs, Colo. Lopata Hall, Rm. 101. 935-5548.

Noon. Genetics Seminar Series. "LINE-1 Retrotransposition and Human Disease." John Moran, assoc. prof. of human genetics, U. of Mich. McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 823. 362-2139.

4 p.m. History Colloquium. "The Making of an African Communist: Edwin Mofutsanyana and the Communist Party of South Africa, 1927-1939." Robert Edgar, prof. of history, Howard U. Co-sponsored by African & African-American Studies. (Reception follows.) Duncker Hall, Rm. 201, Hurst Lounge. 935-5450.

4 p.m. Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars. "Neurturin-RET Mediated Signaling is Critical for Normal Retinal Function." Milam Brantley, Jr., asst. prof. of ophthalmology & visual sciences. Maternity Bldg., Rm. 725. 362-3315.

4:30 p.m. Danforth Lecture. "The Social Impact of a University." Jonathan F. Fanton, president, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Sponsored by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the Assembly Series. Brown Hall Lounge. To R.S.V.P.: 935-7573.


Friday, April 6

Noon. Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar. "Genetic Analysis of Organogenesis in the Mouse." Jeffrey Miner, assoc. prof. of internal medicine. McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg., Rm. 426. 747-4233.


Monday, April 9

4 p.m. Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series. "The Age Factor in Second Language Speech Learning." James Flege, prof. emeritus of psychology, U. of Ala., Birmingham. Co-sponsored by Co-sponsored by Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures, Germanic Languages & Literatures and Romance Languages & Literatures. Lab Sciences Bldg., Rm. 250. 935-5175.

4 p.m. Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars. "Genetic Defects Causing Retinitis Pigmentosa. Insights from Two Genes: NRL and RD3." James Firedman, postdoctoral fellow in ophthalmology, U. of Mich. Maternity Bldg., Rm. 725. 362-3315.


Tuesday, April 10

Noon. Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series. "Remodeling Proteins and the Proteome by AAA ATPase." Tania Baker, E.C. Whitehead Professor of Biology, Mass. Inst. of Technology. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 935-7888.

1 p.m. Program in Physical Therapy Research Seminar. 4444 Forest Park Blvd., Lower Lvl., Rm. B108. 286-1404.


Wednesday, April 11

4 p.m. Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Seminar. "Protein Misfolding in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease." Richard Morimoto, Bill and Gayle Cooke Professor of Biology, Northwestern U. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-4152.

Music

Sunday, March 25

8 p.m. Indian Classical Music Concert. Imrat Khan, sitar, and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Cost: $15; $10 for seniors, faculty & staff; $5 for students. Edison Theatre. 935-6543.


Saturday, March 31

7 p.m. Voice Recital. Nora Maynard. Whitaker Hall Aud. 935-4841.


Sunday, April 1

2 p.m. Graduate Recital. Allyson Ditchey, soprano. Graham Chapel. 935-4841.

7 p.m. Recital. Allison Cayne, oboe. Graham Chapel. 935-4841.

On Stage

Thursday, March 29

8 p.m. Performing Arts Dept. Presentation. "Highness" by Carolyn Kras. Annamaria Pileggi, dir. (Also 8 p.m. March 30 & 31, 2 p.m. March 31 & April 1.) Cost: $15, $9 for seniors, students, children, WUSTL faculty & staff. Mallinckrodt Student Center, A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre. 935-6543.


Friday, March 30

8 p.m. OVATIONS! Series. "Leftover Stories to Tell: A Tribute to Spalding Gray." (Also 8 p.m. March 31.) Cost: $30, $25 for seniors, WUSTL faculty & staff, $18 for students & children. Edison Theatre. 935-6543.

Sports

Friday, March 30

All day.Track & Field Washington University Invitational. (Also March 31.) Francis Field. 935-4705.


Saturday, March 31

1 p.m. Softball vs. Millikin U. WUSTL Field. 935-4705.


Monday, April 2

1:30 p.m. Baseball vs. Edgewood College. Kelly Field. 935-4705.


Friday, April 6

7 p.m. Men's Tennis vs. Maryville U. Tao Tennis Center. 935-4705.


Saturday, April 7

All day. Track & Field WU Select Meet. Francis Field. 935-4705.

10 a.m. Men's Tennis vs. Wheaton College. Tao Tennis Center. 935-4705.


Monday, April 9

4 p.m. Men's Tennis vs. McKendree College. Tao Tennis Center. 935-4705.


Wednesday, April 11

4 p.m. Women's Tennis vs. Maryville U. Tao Tennis Center. 935-4705.

Worship

Thursday, April 5

7 p.m. Catholic Holy Thursday Mass. Catholic Student Center, 6352 Forsyth Blvd. modde@washucsc.org.


Friday, April 6

7 p.m. Catholic Good Friday Service. Catholic Student Center, 6352 Forsyth Blvd. modde@washucsc.org.


Saturday, April 7

7:30 p.m. Catholic Easter Vigil Mass. Catholic Student Center, 6352 Forsyth Blvd. modde@washucsc.org.


Sunday, April 8

9:30 & 11 a.m. Catholic Easter Sunday Mass. Graham Chapel. Sponsored by the Catholic Student Center. modde@washucsc.org.

And more

Saturday, March 31

2 p.m. Memorial Service. Honoring Dr. Leonard Berg. (Reception follows.) Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Aud. 286-0071.

5-9:30 p.m. School of Social Work International Festival. "Connecting Cultures." Lab Sciences Bldg. 935-6600.


Friday, April 6

1 p.m. Skandalaris Center YouthBridge Workshop Series. "Resources for Social Entrepreneurs" & "Building Your Network." Simon Hall. To register: www.sc.wustl.edu.

For a full listing of medical rounds and conferences, see the School of Medicine's Web site. Also, for more events, please see the expanded Danforth Campus calendar Web site.

Events sponsored by the University -- its departments, schools, centers, organizations and recognized student organizations -- are published in the calendar. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Calendar submissions should state time, date, place, sponsor(s), title of event or lecture, name(s) of speaker(s), speaker(s) affiliations and admission cost. Mail items to Calendar at Campus Box 1070 or fax to 935-4259 or e-mail at recordcalendar@wustl.edu. Submission forms are available by calling 935-4926 and information can be found here.

The deadline for all entries is noon on the Thursday seven days before the Record issue date. Late or incomplete entries will not be printed. The Record is published every Thursday during the school year, except holidays, and monthly during the summer.