With the Peace Corps turning 50, Amanda Moore McBride, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School, says international service is growing and new research needs to look at service programs' impacts on both the volunteers and the host communities. FULL STORY

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Dreadful zoonoses — animal diseases that now infect people — have jumped species in distant parts of the world, such as Asia or Africa. But Missouri has its own zoonoses as well: tick-borne diseases whose spread is encouraged by pest species such as white-tailed deer and invasive plants such as bush honeysuckle. FULL STORY

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Harvard University sociologist William Julius Wilson, PhD, a leading authority on race and poverty in the United States, will deliver the biennial lecture for the Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, in the Danforth University Center, Room 276. FULL STORY

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The School of Medicine will join hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide in celebrating Campus Sustainability Day Oct. 20. The day also is being celebrated on the Danforth Campus. FULL STORY

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With an election right around the corner and the media saturated with political pundits, the role of government may seem “all politics.” Students can get a fresh perspective on how government works with a series of events Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 20 and 21, that demonstrate how people are making a difference through careers in civil service. FULL STORY

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• 5 p.m. Kemper Art Museum Gallery Talk. “Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove and Stuart Davis: The Emergence of Abstraction in American Art.” Karen K. Butler, asst. curator, Kemper Art Museum. Presented in conjunction with the American Arts Experience festival. Kemper Art Museum. (314) 935-4523.

• Kenyan ambassador to speak. Elkanah Odembo Absalom, Kenyan ambassador to the United States, will present “Kenya’s New Constitution: What it Means, the Lessons Learned, and the Challenges Ahead” at 3 p.m. today in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

• Off to its best start since 1979, the No. 12 men’s soccer team will take its 9-0-3 record on the road as it faces Case Western Reserve University today in Cleveland.