The School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital announce plans to build a new Siteman Cancer Center in south St. Louis County, serving the Interstate 55 corridor and southern Illinois. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20968.aspx

Missouri is getting national attention with yesterday's Proposition C referendum on federal health care reform. But Timothy D. McBride, PhD, associate dean for public health at the Brown School, says either outcome would have had little impact on the new health care law. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20970.aspx

University College students hang a light fixture at North Side Community School July 24 in a service project in conjunction with the Nonprofit Management Program. UCollege is holding a preview night for all its programs at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, in Holmes Lounge. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20974.aspx

Pass the chips and hand over the remote. In a study involving the first-ever daily energy expenditure measurements in apes, WUSTL researchers have determined that orangutans living in a large indoor/outdoor habitat used less energy, relative to body mass, than even sedentary humans. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20980.aspx

Olin MBAs  are taking their classroom skills to the boardroom. Nine have been selected to serve on the boards of social service agencies supported by the United Way of Greater St. Louis. Students are getting real-world experience while helping the community in which they live. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20960.aspx

Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, the Adolphus Busch Professor and head of the Department of Medicine, has been named dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20976.aspx

• Sunday, Aug. 8, 3 p.m. concert. Pianist Lorie Line and the Pop Chamber Orchestra. For tickets and information, call Edison Theatre box office at (314) 935-6543.

• Work continues on Brookings Drive. South Brookings Drive is closed this week. Access from Hoyt Drive to Skinker, access to the parking lot east of the Kemper Museum, and access to the Kemper receiving area will be closed through Sunday, Aug. 8. Both lanes of Brookings are expected to be open by Monday, Aug. 9.

• Athletic department summer upgrades. The Department of Athletics is in the middle of a two-week upgrade project, which includes resurfacing of the tennis courts, refinishing of the WU Field House and Francis Gym, new scoreboards in the Rec Gym and freshly painted walls in Millstone Pool.