At a time when most faculty members began to focus on summer, School of Law faculty, led by Gregory Magarian, JD, professor of law, played a prominent role in vetting new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Fourteen WUSTL law professors formed one of three reading groups charged with poring over years of Kagan writings.  FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21029.aspx

First-year medical students in the Class of 2014 — 122 in all — received their white coats at an Aug. 13 ceremony at the School of Medicine. The students also took an oath they wrote during medical school orientation. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21035.aspx

The immune system may open the door to recurrent urinary tract infections by overdoing its response to an initial infection, researchers at the School of Medicine have found. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20996.aspx

Genetic investigators, including WUSTL’s Fiona Marshall, PhD, professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, say that man’s partnership with donkeys can now be traced to Nubian ass domesticated by desert dwellers more than 5,000 years ago. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21023.aspx

Two WUSTL biomedical engineering scientists are able to image subcutaneous melanoma tumors with startling three-dimensional clarity. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21014.aspx

Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning has received a $1.76 million five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund the TRiO Student Support Services program. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21020.aspx

• 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19. University College fall 2010 new student orientation. Faculty, staff, and current students will welcome new students and answer questions. Refreshments provided. RSVP requested. January Hall, Room 110. (314) 935-6700.

• Employee tuition benefits available at Olin Business School. Information sessions for WUSTL employees interested in pursuing the Professional MBA and Executive MBA are being held in the next week. Sessions are at noon, Wednesday, Aug. 25, at the Farrell Learning & Teaching Center on the Medical Campus, and at noon Thursday, Aug. 26, in Simon Hall on the Danforth Campus. RSVP by Friday, Aug. 20, to Kevin Kiley at kiley@wustl.edu.

• Women’s soccer ranked No. 2 in the country. The NSCAA/adidas preseason poll has been announced and the WUSTL women are ranked No. 2 overall. Coach Jim Conlon returns 18 letterwinners and six starters from last year’s team, which advanced to the national title game before falling to Messiah College. The Bears open on the road Wednesday, Sept. 1, at Division I Southeast Missouri State University.