Economics Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North, PhD, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, will discuss “Violence and Social Orders: Where Are We Going?” at noon Monday, April 19, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

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Visitors to the annual Pow Wow April 10 at the Field House enjoyed a daylong celebration of dancing, singing, drumming, arts, crafts and food. Sponsored by the Brown School's Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies, it is the only Pow Wow within 100 miles of St. Louis.
 

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A five-year, $3.7 million clinical trial will investigate how to balance the benefits and risks of warfarin, a drug that helps prevent potentially deadly blood clots. The multicenter study, led by researchers at the School of Medicine, will evaluate customized warfarin dosage based on patient genetics and will test which range of blood clotting is optimal in orthopedic patients.

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Critic Marjorie Perloff, a Visiting Hurst Professor in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will present a lecture titled "Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 14. The talk — adapted from the opening chapter of her forthcoming book of the same title — will examine the practices of allusion and quotation in modern poetry. 

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