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Record: News for the WUSTL Campus & Community February 10, 2010  
 
Campus parking solution sought by Olin students

The Danforth Campus has more than 12,000 students, 4,500-plus faculty and staff and 5,168 parking spaces. Teams of Olin Business School students have been crunching the numbers since December in hopes of solving the campus parking challenge and winning the grand prize of $5,000 in the first Olin Sustainabiity Case Competition. Four teams compete in the final round Friday, Feb. 12. 

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20235.aspx

 

The largest U.S. epidemiological study of Parkinson's disease has found that the disease is more prevalent in the Midwest and the Northeast and is twice as likely to strike whites and Hispanics as blacks and Asians. Researchers analyzed data on more than 36 million Medicare recipients.

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20150.aspx

 

Washington University recently released an off-campus safety video that offers tips to help students, faculty and staff stay safe while living in and visiting off-campus housing.

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20228.aspx

Still from off-campus safety video
 

Brian Evenson — whose intensely macabre yet darkly comic and subtly philosophical novels and stories led American Book Review to praise him as “essentially our poet laureate of violence” — will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, for The Writing Program in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences.

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20213.aspx

 

Medical anthropologist Carole H. Browner, Ph.D., will speak on “Gender, Health and Reproduction: Transnational Perspectives” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. The lecture is part of the new Initiative on Gender, Sexuality, and Health.

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20231.aspx

Browner
 

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