A groundbreaking ceremony for Preston M. Green Hall was held Friday, April 30. The building — the next phase of a state-of-the-art complex for the School of Engineering & Applied Science — is being named in honor of Green, a WUSTL alumnus and benefactor who died in 2003. FULL STORY

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Beginning Friday, May 7, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will showcase Focus on Photography: Recent Acquisitions. The exhibition will include works by historical figures who helped define early photographic standards as well as by contemporary photographers working within what art historian George Baker has termed “photography’s expanded field.” FULL STORY

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A two-day event, hosted by the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences and the Office of Post Graduate Affairs, brought 19 prospective postdoctoral research scholars to WUSTL for a recruiting visit. FULL STORY

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Two WUSTL doctoral students, Kelly Diggs-Andrews and Christie T. Spence, were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society earlier this spring at Yale University. The national society was established in 2005 in honor of Bouchet (right), the first African-American to earn a doctorate from an American university. FULL STORY

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• 5 p.m. Book Studio Open House. Tour of the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book. Sponsored by Washington University Libraries and the College of Art. Walker Hall, Level 2. 935-5495.

• School of Medicine blood drive today A blood drive will be held from noon-7 p.m. today at the Bernard Becker Medical Library on the seventh floor of the building at 660 South Euclid Ave.

• Senior track athlete Hana Danamore set a school record May 1. Her record-breaking hammer throw of 49.70 was good for first place in that event at the Monmouth College Fighting Scots Invitational in Monmouth, Ill.