For many WUSTL students, faculty and staff, Metro provides an environmentally friendly and economical commute to campus, work and social events. St. Louis County voters will decide tomorrow whether to pass Proposition A, which calls for a half-cent sales tax increase to support public transportation in the St. Louis area.

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Evan D. Kharasch, MD, PhD, the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has been appointed vice chancellor for research. He had served as interim vice chancellor since July 2009. As the chief officer responsible for the university's research mission, he will oversee an enterprise that generates more than $500 million annually for sponsored research from a wide array of funding sources.

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Regarded as one of the nation’s leading African historians, Jean Allman, PhD, shares her passion for the continent through her teaching, mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, prolific writing and worldwide scholarly presentations, and editorship of a book series that ensures other scholars’ writings about African history are published.

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A total of 395 productive units of blood were collected at eight locations around the Danforth, Medical and West campuses March 31.

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Writer Tatyana Tolstaya, one of the foremost chroniclers of post-Gorbachev Russia, will present a pair of events at Washington University today and tomorrow. Tolstaya is the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in The Writing Program in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences.
 

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