Two top economists made headlines in visits to Olin Business School last week when they shared their views on the economy and its recovery. Former Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker (far right, with Steven Fazzari, PhD) and St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank president and CEO James Bullard, PhD, offered different perspectives. FULL STORY

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Jason Echols spent his time at the Brown School concentrating on gerontology — including helping to produce a contest-winning YouTube video on social work and aging. Working with older adults is his passion, and for that the Record has chosen Echols as the 2010 Outstanding Graduate in the Brown School. FULL STORY

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The lottery for the first round of enrollment in the Family Learning Center at Washington University will be held Thursday, May 27. The center — scheduled to open Sept. 7, 2010 — will offer care for 156 children of faculty, staff and students from the ages of 6 weeks to 6 years. FULL STORY

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The School of Medicine’s Public Health Interest Group held a class at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club Adams Park Unit to teach children and their parents how to prepare healthy meals. FULL STORY

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• 1 p.m. Career Development Seminar Series. “Constructing a Research Agenda in Mental Health Services Research.” Ramesh Raghavan, asst. prof., Brown School. Sponsored by Clinical Research Training Center and Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences. Wohl Auditorium, 4960 Children’s Place. 454-8957.

• Flance Memorial June 24 A memorial service for I. Jerome Flance, MD, a renowned physician, educator and pulmonary disease specialist at the School of Medicine, will be held at 4 p.m. June 24 in Moore Auditorium at the School of Medicine.

• The No. 18 softball team will make its ninth straight appearance in the NCAA Division III championship. WUSTL will play in an eight-team Central Regional tournament Thursday through Monday, May 13-17, at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind.