The four newest members of the faculty fellows program, including Anca Parvulescu, PhD, assistant professor of English in Arts & Sciences, have settled into their apartments on the South 40. Since 1998, WUSTL professors have lived among students for three years at a time, helping them integrate academic and residential life.  FULL STORY

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A study of Missouri girls in foster care found that about half of them had become pregnant or had given birth by age 19. To address this startling statistic, WUSTL is launching a regional pregnancy prevention program for this high-risk population. The project will serve an estimated 600 teens in foster care in the St. Louis region. FULL STORY

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David A. Fike, PhD, assistant professor of isotope biogeochemistry in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, has been named a Packard Fellow, a prestigious distinction awarded this year to only 17 top young researchers nationwide. FULL STORY

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The Weston Career Center at Olin Business School is not sitting on the sideline, waiting for the economy to recover, campus recruiting to pick up and unemployment to drop. Instead, the career center team has gone on the offensive to help students find jobs in non-traditional markets and help them learn how to market themselves and network in new ways. FULL STORY

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Poet Timothy Donnelly will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, for the Writing Program’s fall Reading Series. Donnelly’s second collection of poetry, The Cloud Corporation, was released by Wave Books earlier this month. 
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• Noon. Sam Fox School Eugene J. Mackey Lecture. “Starting From Zero: How Haiti Can Save Architecture.” Eric J. Cesal, manager, Architecture for Humanity’s design and reconstruction initiatives in Haiti. Givens Hall, Kemp Aud. (314) 935-6200.

• School of Medicine Health Happening fair. Walking for exercise will be the focus of the Health Happening health and wellness fair from 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in the McDonnell Pediatric Research Building Atrium. Among the exhibits will be displays on treadmill use and how to select a proper shoe for different walking styles.

• Women’s basketball ranked No. 3 in preseason poll. The defending national champion women’s basketball team has been tabbed as the No. 3 team in the nation by DIII News in its annual preseason poll. WUSTL returns two starters and 14 letterwinners to a team that posted a 29-2 overall record a year ago and captured the program’s fifth national championship. The season opens at home at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, against Fontbonne University.