Tyson Research Center’s Living Learning Center has achieved full certification under the Living Building Challenge run by the International Living Building Institute. The challenge, launched in November 2006, is widely recognized as the world’s most rigorous green building performance standard. FULL STORY

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Members of the WUSTL military care package group pack boxes of donated home-baked goods, snacks, toiletries and more to send in care packages to U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan Oct. 1. The group surpassed five tons of goods donated by the WUSTL community and mailed overseas to soldiers since it was formed in March 2004. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21287.aspx

Recent calls to cut Social Security benefits are grounded in misinformation and misunderstanding, says Merton C. Bernstein, LLB, the Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus at the School of Law. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21307.aspx

Ralph G. Dacey Jr., MD, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors in health and medicine that medical scientists in the United States can receive. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21311.aspx

Salvatore Scibona, whose debut novel, The End, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21313.aspx

WUSTL alumnus Adam Ross returns to campus at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 19, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge to read and discuss his new novel, Mr. Peanut, a dark look at the complexities of marriage. FULL STORY

URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21314.aspx

• 4 p.m. Dept. of Anthropology Colloquia. “The Meaning of ‘Race’ in a Genomic Age.” Barbara Koenig, prof. of biomedical ethics and medicine, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. McMillan Hall, Rm. 149. (314) 935-5252.

• Emergency drill today. WUSTL will simulate an emergency situation on its campuses beginning this afternoon to help ensure the university is prepared should an actual emergency occur. Staff from participating departments throughout the Danforth, Medical, West and North campuses — including the Record — will participate. Because of the Record staff’s involvement, there will be no e-mail tomorrow, Oct. 13. For more information about the drill, visit news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21275.aspx.

• Football team upsets Wabash College. The Bears football team upset previously unbeaten No. 19 Wabash College, 24-20, Oct. 9 at Francis Field. Senior quarterback Stephen Sherman had a career day, completing 18 of 28 passes for 266 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner to junior wide receiver Easton Knott with 1:10 on the clock.